Bread and bread-type rolls made in commercial bakeries · Illinois

Polk

Chicago, IL · ~542 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Polk runs at 199% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bread and bread-type rolls made in commercial bakeries workplace, earning a grade D.

Polk: 6.6 TCR = 199% of Bread and bread-type rolls made in commercial bakeries BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Polk safety composite

Polk scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Polk: 7.3 → 11.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.65× in 2024

Polk's TCR rose 4.5 from 7.3 in 2016 to 11.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311812 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 199% of ind

  • DART 10.8 DART
  • RANK #42/59
  • PHOTO Valdosta Facility
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 266 inj
  • SIZE ~542 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Valdosta Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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Polk in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Polk averages 6.6 TCR (199% of the Bread and bread-type rolls made in commercial bakeries BLS benchmark).

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

Polk TCR series: 2016=7.3 · 2018=5.2 · 2019=7 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=6.2 · 2023=5.9 · 2024=11.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Polk falls in its industry

1,014 Bread and bread-type rolls mad establishments

Safer than 28% 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 #42 safest of 59 Bread and bread-type rolls mad employers in Illinois.

Polk (542 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 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 01,0002,0003,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Polk
Polk (542 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Polk has more employees than the Bread and bread-type rolls made in comme 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 11.7 10.8 64 0 0
2023 5.9 5.9 37 0 0
2022 6.2 6.2 38 0 0
2021 2.6 2.4 15 0 0
2019 7.0 6.2 41 0 0
2018 5.2 4.5 30 0 0
2016 7.3 5.4 41 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311812 · IL · Chicago

1,014 Bread and bread-type rolls made in commercial bakeries 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 Valdosta Facility 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flowers Baking Company of Newton, LLC 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SWY-0045-0045-08122 8122 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Richmond CA Plant 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE City of Chicago - CDOT, In-House Construction 542 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMS Mechanical Systems, Inc 542 FTE
STATE-SIZE Velocitel, Inc. 542 FTE
STATE-SIZE Global Specialty Fulfillment : STL6 542 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 Kenney Manufacturing Company 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ceilings, Etc., Inc. 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR ServiceMaster DSI - Springfield, MO 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Genco Mfg and Stamping Company 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Huhtamaki Waterville 542 FTE
NAT-SIZE Philips Reedsville 1 542 FTE
NAT-SIZE Salem Carriers, Inc. 542 FTE
NAT-SIZE Skyworks Solutions, Inc. - Woburn, MA 542 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, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.