Pork rinds manufacturing · Illinois

Quality Snack Foods, Inc.

Alsip, IL · ~192 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.6
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Quality Snack Foods, Inc. runs at 186% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pork rinds manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Quality Snack Foods, Inc.: 7.6 TCR = 186% of Pork rinds manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Quality Snack Foods, Inc. safety composite

Quality Snack Foods, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.8

2016→2024

Quality Snack Foods, Inc. injury rate improved

Quality Snack Foods, Inc.'s TCR fell 4.8 from 9.1 in 2016 to 4.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 13.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.1 · 2017=13.7 · 2018=5.9 · 2019=6.5 · 2020=6.4 · 2021=8.6 · 2022=11.1 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=4.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Alsip, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.6 · 186% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #11/13
  • PHOTO Facility 1
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 118 inj
  • SIZE ~192 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Facility 1 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Quality Snack Foods, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Quality Snack Foods, Inc. averages 7.6 TCR (186% of the Pork rinds manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Quality Snack Foods, Inc. TCR series: 2016=9.1 · 2017=13.7 · 2018=5.9 · 2019=6.5 · 2020=6.4 · 2021=8.6 · 2022=11.1 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 4.1

Where Quality Snack Foods, Inc. falls in its industry

253 Pork rinds manufacturing establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 13 Pork rinds manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Quality Snack Foods, Inc. (192 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 Quality Snack Foods, Inc.
Quality Snack Foods, Inc. (192 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Quality Snack Foods, Inc. has more employees than the Pork rinds manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 4.3 1.2 6 5 0
2023 3.1 1.9 6 2 0
2022 11.1 4.0 22 0 0
2021 8.6 8.6 14 3 0
2020 6.4 6.4 14 0 0
2019 6.5 5.5 13 0 0
2018 5.9 4.3 11 0 0
2017 13.7 12.4 21 1 0
2016 9.1 7.6 11 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · IL · Alsip

253 Pork rinds manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 117 employers in Alsip, 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 Facility 1 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crispy Maid 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mikesell's Potato Chip Co 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rudolph Foods Lawrenceville 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cresco Labs - Lincoln 192 FTE
STATE-SIZE M-Bar-D 192 FTE
STATE-SIZE #1 roofing company 192 FTE
STATE-SIZE ILDIV 192 FTE
CITY-NEAR Menasha Packaging Company - Alsip 783 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1005 - Alsip 594 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alsip 388 FTE
CITY-NEAR Griffith Foods - Alsip 380 FTE
NAT-TCR MOB 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Napoleon Care Center 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Airlite Plastics Co. PA 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR XSL 7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Methodist Rehab Hospital 6787 4080 192 FTE
NAT-SIZE Franksville 192 FTE
NAT-SIZE Medilodge of Grand Blanc 192 FTE
NAT-SIZE Presidents Island - D024 192 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.