Pepper (i.e., spice) manufacturing · Illinois

Newly Weds Foods

Yorkville, IL · ~137 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Newly Weds Foods runs at 153% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pepper (i.e., spice) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Newly Weds Foods: 6.3 TCR = 153% of Pepper (i.e., spice) manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Newly Weds Foods safety composite

Newly Weds Foods scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−7.4

2022→2024

Newly Weds Foods injury rate improved

Newly Weds Foods's TCR fell 7.4 from 10.3 in 2022 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 10.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=10.3 · 2023=5.6 · 2024=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311942 · Yorkville, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 153% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #14/16
  • PHOTO High Quality Organic…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~137 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: High Quality Organics, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Newly Weds Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Newly Weds Foods averages 6.3 TCR (153% of the Pepper (i.e., spice) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Newly Weds Foods TCR series: 2022=10.3 · 2023=5.6 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 4.1

Where Newly Weds Foods falls in its industry

200 Pepper (i.e., spice) manufactu establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 16 Pepper (i.e., spice) manufactu employers in Illinois.

Newly Weds Foods (137 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Newly Weds Foods
Newly Weds Foods (137 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Newly Weds Foods has more employees than the Pepper (i.e., spice) manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 2.9 2.9 4 0 0
2023 5.6 4.8 5 2 0
2022 10.3 8.2 11 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311942 · IL · Yorkville

200 Pepper (i.e., spice) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 37 employers in Yorkville, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR High Quality Organics, Inc. 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Adams Extract & Spice, LLC 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mane Inc. Lebanon Production 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lebanon Operations 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - IL Sub Maint Ops 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE P.J. Hoerr Inc 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newcastle Limited LLC 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edwards Engineering Inc 137 FTE
CITY-NEAR Yorkville CUSD #115 787 FTE
CITY-NEAR YRV 390 FTE
CITY-NEAR County of Kendall, Illinois 381 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2378 - Yorkville 272 FTE
NAT-TCR Nenpl - North Platte 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mdhun - Hunt Valley 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hickory Creek at Crawfordsville 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Dependable Glass LLC 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tnmar - Maryville Center 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Utlog - Logan 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flbra - Bradenton Center 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Services Building 137 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.