Processed meats manufacturing · Illinois

OSI Group - Ashland

Chicago, IL · ~502 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

OSI Group - Ashland runs at 156% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Processed meats manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

OSI Group - Ashland: 5.2 TCR = 156% of Processed meats manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

OSI Group - Ashland safety composite

OSI Group - Ashland scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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

−5.7

2019→2024

OSI Group - Ashland injury rate improved

OSI Group - Ashland's TCR fell 5.7 from 8.0 in 2019 to 2.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=8.0 · 2024=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 156% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #33/49
  • PHOTO Haltom City Plant
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~502 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Haltom City Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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OSI Group - Ashland in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows OSI Group - Ashland averages 5.2 TCR (156% of the Processed meats manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

OSI Group - Ashland TCR series: 2019=8 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 3.3

Where OSI Group - Ashland falls in its industry

613 Processed meats manufacturing establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 49 Processed meats manufacturing employers in Illinois.

OSI Group - Ashland (502 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate OSI Group - Ashland
OSI Group - Ashland (502 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

OSI Group - Ashland has more employees than the Processed meats manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 2.3 2.3 13 0 0
2019 8.0 7.4 28 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · IL · Chicago

613 Processed meats manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, 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 Haltom City Plant 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sunnyvalley Smoked Meats 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cargill Protein 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR James Meat Company Inc 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sheriff's Office 502 FTE
STATE-SIZE DANVILLE IL (QUAKER) 501 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cookie Kingdom 501 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sysco Foods 503 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR Garden Inn 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Market Of Choice #4 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Georgia Architectural Stone, Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Oakland Nursery - New Albany 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Daily's Premium Meats 502 FTE
NAT-SIZE Topeka General Office 502 FTE
NAT-SIZE ZF-Mesa 502 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brooks Sports - HQ 502 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, 2019. 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.