Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale · Illinois

Romaine Empire, Inc - Cicero

Chicago, IL · ~203 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.7
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Romaine Empire, Inc - Cicero runs at 236% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale workplace, earning a grade F.

Romaine Empire, Inc - Cicero: 9.7 TCR = 236% of Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS 4.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Romaine Empire, Inc - Cicero safety composite

Romaine Empire, Inc - Cicero scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.5

2020→2023

Romaine Empire, Inc - Cicero injury rate improved

Romaine Empire, Inc - Cicero's TCR fell 4.5 from 10.4 in 2020 to 5.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 11.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=10.4 · 2021=11.3 · 2022=11.1 · 2023=5.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311991 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.7 · 236% of ind

  • DART 5.9 DART
  • RANK #26/29
  • PHOTO Mayfair
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 60 inj
  • SIZE ~203 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mayfair (0.1 TCR gap)

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Romaine Empire, Inc - Cicero in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Romaine Empire, Inc - Cicero averages 9.7 TCR (236% of the Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS benchmark).

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

Romaine Empire, Inc - Cicero TCR series: 2020=10.4 · 2021=11.3 · 2022=11.1 · 2023=5.9 · BLS 4.1

Where Romaine Empire, Inc - Cicero falls in its industry

376 Food, prepared, perishable, pa establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 29 Food, prepared, perishable, pa employers in Illinois.

Romaine Empire, Inc - Cicero (203 employees, TCR 9.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Romaine Empire, Inc - Cicero
Romaine Empire, Inc - Cicero (203 employees, TCR 9.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Romaine Empire, Inc - Cicero has more employees than the Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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
2023 5.9 5.9 11 2 0
2022 11.1 9.2 17 0 0
2021 11.3 10.1 10 0 0
2020 10.4 9.5 22 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311991 · IL · Chicago

376 Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale 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 Mayfair 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR NationsBenefits LLC - NationsMarket Hollywood FL 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Royal Fresh Cuts Building 3600 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Potato Products of Idaho 9.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Unistrut International Corporation 203 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ohio Medical 203 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cardinal Health Aurora, IL PD 203 FTE
STATE-SIZE MORRIS IL - 3215 203 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 Grand Traverse County Road Commission 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Mostj - St. Joseph 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Broward Main Office 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Gasbarre Products - Sinterite Division 9.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Omni Austin Hotel Downtown 203 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valdese Nc Plant 203 FTE
NAT-SIZE E.G.O. North America, Inc. 203 FTE
NAT-SIZE Onion River Cooperative, DBA City Market Downtown 203 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.