Pizzas, frozen, manufacturing · Illinois

Richelieu Foods, Inc. - Wheeling

Wheeling, IL · ~188 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Richelieu Foods, Inc. - Wheeling runs at 476% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pizzas, frozen, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Richelieu Foods, Inc. - Wheeling: 15.7 TCR = 476% of Pizzas, frozen, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Richelieu Foods, Inc. - Wheeling safety composite

Richelieu Foods, Inc. - Wheeling scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Richelieu Foods, Inc. - Wheeling: 13.4 → 17.9 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 17.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.86× in 2017

Richelieu Foods, Inc. - Wheeling's TCR rose 4.5 from 13.4 in 2016 to 17.9 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311412 · Wheeling, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 15.7 · 476% of ind

  • DART 13.4 DART
  • RANK #15/15
  • PHOTO Isabella USDA
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~188 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Isabella USDA (0.5 TCR gap)

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Richelieu Foods, Inc. - Wheeling in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Richelieu Foods, Inc. - Wheeling averages 15.7 TCR (476% of the Pizzas, frozen, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Richelieu Foods, Inc. - Wheeling TCR series: 2016=13.4 · 2017=17.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Richelieu Foods, Inc. - Wheeling falls in its industry

274 Pizzas, frozen, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 15 Pizzas, frozen, manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Richelieu Foods, Inc. - Wheeling (188 employees, TCR 15.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 201 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 Richelieu Foods, Inc. - Wheeling
Richelieu Foods, Inc. - Wheeling (188 employees, TCR 15.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 201 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Richelieu Foods, Inc. - Wheeling has fewer employees than the Pizzas, frozen, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2017 17.9 13.4 8 0 0
2016 13.4 13.4 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311412 · IL · Wheeling

274 Pizzas, frozen, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 136 employers in Wheeling, 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 Isabella USDA 16.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR DFS Nebraska Plant 16.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northern Culinary Brands 13.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harry's Fresh Foods 17.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hayes Services, LLC 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE PCI Chicago Interior 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE Affy Tapple, LLC 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vanee Foods Company 188 FTE
CITY-NEAR IL-01 4,581 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wheeling School District 21 967 FTE
CITY-NEAR Main Office - 01 800 FTE
CITY-NEAR Response Team 1 728 FTE
NAT-TCR LMMM Valley#2, LTD 15.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Drury Inn & Suites - Joplin 15.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 105/OKC 15.7 TCR
NAT-TCR HG129 15.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bingo 188 FTE
NAT-SIZE Akron Zoo 188 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ventura Center (Caven) 188 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schuyler Ridge 188 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: 2017, 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.