Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale · Illinois

Romaine Empire, Inc. d/b/a Farmer's Fridge

Chicago, IL · ~164 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.5
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Romaine Empire, Inc. d/b/a Farmer's Fridge runs at 208% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale workplace, earning a grade F.

Romaine Empire, Inc. d/b/a Farmer's Fridge: 8.5 TCR = 208% of Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Romaine Empire, Inc. d/b/a Farmer's Fridge safety composite

Romaine Empire, Inc. d/b/a Farmer's Fridge 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.53 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

Romaine Empire, Inc. d/b/a Farmer's Fridge: 4.5 → 12.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 12.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.47× in 2019

Romaine Empire, Inc. d/b/a Farmer's Fridge's TCR rose 8.0 from 4.5 in 2018 to 12.5 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 8.5 · 208% of ind

  • DART 12.5 DART
  • RANK #25/29
  • PHOTO Simply Fresh Foods
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~164 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Simply Fresh Foods (0.1 TCR gap)

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Romaine Empire, Inc. d/b/a Farmer's Fridge in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Romaine Empire, Inc. d/b/a Farmer's Fridge averages 8.5 TCR (208% of the Prepared meals, 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. d/b/a Farmer's Fridge TCR series: 2018=4.5 · 2019=12.5 · BLS 4.1

Where Romaine Empire, Inc. d/b/a Farmer's Fridge falls in its industry

376 Prepared meals, perishable, pa establishments

Safer than 23% 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 #25 safest of 29 Prepared meals, perishable, pa employers in Illinois.

Romaine Empire, Inc. d/b/a Farmer's Fridge (164 employees, TCR 8.5) 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. d/b/a Farmer's Fridge
Romaine Empire, Inc. d/b/a Farmer's Fridge (164 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Romaine Empire, Inc. d/b/a Farmer's Fridge has fewer employees than the Prepared meals, 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
2019 12.5 12.5 22 0 0
2018 4.5 4.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311991 · IL · Chicago

376 Prepared meals, 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 Simply Fresh Foods 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR GreenGate Fresh LLLP Yuma 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meijer Distribution, Inc-862 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Century Facility 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Woodhull WOO1 164 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Belleville 164 FTE
STATE-SIZE Long Grove Confectionery Co 164 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kerry-Melrose Park 164 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 Bon View Operations 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lankershim Yard 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0019 4469 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0019 1800 8.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Qure Medical - Rock Hill 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lepage - Cedar Street 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE 206 - Huber Heights 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE 175 - Racine 164 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: 2019, 2018. 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.