Chewing gum manufacturing · Illinois

Perfetti Van Melle USA - Rockford

Loves Park, IL · ~402 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Perfetti Van Melle USA - Rockford runs at 35% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Chewing gum manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Perfetti Van Melle USA - Rockford: 1.5 TCR = 35% of Chewing gum manufacturing BLS 4.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Perfetti Van Melle USA - Rockford safety composite

Perfetti Van Melle USA - Rockford scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Perfetti Van Melle USA - Rockford: 0.0 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.57× in 2024

Perfetti Van Melle USA - Rockford's TCR rose 3.0 from 0.0 in 2023 to 3.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311340 · Loves Park, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 35% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #8/35
  • PHOTO VMS Vancouver
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~402 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: VMS Vancouver (0.0 TCR gap)

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Perfetti Van Melle USA - Rockford in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Perfetti Van Melle USA - Rockford averages 1.5 TCR (35% of the Chewing gum manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Perfetti Van Melle USA - Rockford TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=3 · BLS 4.2

Where Perfetti Van Melle USA - Rockford falls in its industry

123 Chewing gum manufacturing establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 35 Chewing gum manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Perfetti Van Melle USA - Rockford (402 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 169 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Perfetti Van Melle USA - Rockford
Perfetti Van Melle USA - Rockford (402 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 169 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Perfetti Van Melle USA - Rockford has more employees than the Chewing gum manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 3.0 0.8 7 7 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311340 · IL · Loves Park

123 Chewing gum manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 59 employers in Loves Park, 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 VMS Vancouver 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Popcorn Alley Inc dba Stonehedge Farms 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ford Gum and Machine Co., Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Hershey Company-Memphis, TN 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Adient-AS-Sycamore Facility-00209 402 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3891 402 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1401 402 FTE
STATE-SIZE Illinois Branch 402 FTE
CITY-NEAR Loves Park Campus 1,186 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rock Cut Campus 850 FTE
CITY-NEAR Danfoss LLC 439 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mondelez International-Rockford Plant 405 FTE
NAT-TCR Uhlmann Packaging Systems LP 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR PW Public Library System 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Whitehead Electric Company 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Stamford Center for the Arts Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Arsdl - Springdale Center 402 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eataly Century City 402 FTE
NAT-SIZE HealthTrust - Richmond Supply Chain - va 402 FTE
NAT-SIZE TX313 Corrigan Plywood 402 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.

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