Frozen fruits, fruit juices, and vegetables, manufacturing · Illinois

NL

Northlake, IL · ~28 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

NL runs at 198% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Frozen fruits, fruit juices, and vegetables, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

NL: 6.5 TCR = 198% of Frozen fruits, fruit juices, and vegetables, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NL safety composite

NL scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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).

F

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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%).

Rising injury rate

NL: 5.1 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.22× in 2024

NL's TCR rose 2.9 from 5.1 in 2023 to 8.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311411 · Northlake, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 198% of ind

  • DART 8.0 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO Bonduelle USA
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bonduelle USA (0.1 TCR gap)

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NL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NL averages 6.5 TCR (198% of the Frozen fruits, fruit juices, and vegetables, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

NL TCR series: 2023=5.1 · 2024=8 · BLS 3.3

Where NL falls in its industry

224 Frozen fruits, fruit juices, a establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Frozen fruits, fruit juices, a employers in Illinois.

NL (28 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 161 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate NL
NL (28 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 161 employees and a TCR of 4.3

NL has fewer employees than the Frozen fruits, fruit juices, and vegetab median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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 8.0 8.0 2 0 0
2023 5.1 5.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311411 · IL · Northlake

224 Frozen fruits, fruit juices, and vegetables, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 56 employers in Northlake, 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 Bonduelle USA 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prodalim Winter Garden 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rader Farms, Inc., BCS 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nortera Foods Bergen 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elite Growers, Inc. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charles River Avian Roanoke 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience Princeton IL Research-PRI2 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tracy Export, Inc. 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR IL - Northlake 804 FTE
CITY-NEAR Market Support 628 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARYZTA - Northlake 469 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sun Chemical CTS/Inplant Group 403 FTE
NAT-TCR Giant Food Stores 6447 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Food Stores 6052 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Handling Systems and Conveyors, Inc. Fort Worth 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 3616 Raleigh 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tower Inspection, Inc. 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cambria Suites South Windsor 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE General Wire Products, Inc 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arundel Recycling Center 28 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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