Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses · Illinois

Rochelle Foods

Rochelle, IL · ~823 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rochelle Foods runs at 69% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade B.

Rochelle Foods: 2.3 TCR = 69% of Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rochelle Foods safety composite

Rochelle Foods scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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%).

Rochelle Foods held a steady TCR band

Rochelle Foods's TCR held near 0.2 from 2.1 in 2016 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.1 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=3.0 · 2020=1.9 · 2021=1.3 · 2022=1.0 · 2023=0.9 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Rochelle, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 69% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #9/49
  • PHOTO Northstar Foods, Inc.
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 169 inj
  • SIZE ~823 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Northstar Foods, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rochelle Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rochelle Foods averages 2.3 TCR (69% of the Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

Rochelle Foods TCR series: 2016=2.1 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=3 · 2020=1.9 · 2021=1.3 · 2022=1 · 2023=0.9 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Rochelle Foods falls in its industry

613 Bacon, slab and sliced, made f establishments

Safer than 82% 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 #9 safest of 49 Bacon, slab and sliced, made f employers in Illinois.

Rochelle Foods (823 employees, TCR 2.3) 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 Rochelle Foods
Rochelle Foods (823 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Rochelle Foods has more employees than the Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purcha median and a lower 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 1.9 1.6 16 0 0
2023 0.9 0.6 8 0 0
2022 1.0 0.6 9 0 0
2021 1.3 0.3 12 0 0
2020 1.9 0.8 14 1 0
2019 3.0 0.8 25 0 0
2018 3.5 0.8 30 0 0
2017 4.8 1.5 39 1 0
2016 2.1 0.9 16 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · IL · Rochelle

613 Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 45 employers in Rochelle, 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 Northstar Foods, Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Diluigi Foods 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Monogram Meat Snacks LLC 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR One World Specialties 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE SCBGILDD 824 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carbondale 824 FTE
STATE-SIZE Komatsu America Corp PMO 821 FTE
STATE-SIZE Parkland College 820 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rochelle Community Hospital 321 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rochelle Distribution Center 289 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nippon Sharyo Manufacturing, LLC 252 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 933 238 FTE
NAT-TCR Stewart Interior Contractors, LLC 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 668 - Bakersfield 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR UPMC Horizon Greenville 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Uvclem-Dpp-U Village at Clemson 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rivers Casino 823 FTE
NAT-SIZE First Quality Tissue Southeast 823 FTE
NAT-SIZE McLaren Health Management Group 823 FTE
NAT-SIZE Faith Regional Health Services West Campus 823 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.