Poultry and poultry products (except canned, packaged frozen) merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Sherwood Foods- Markham

Markham, IL · ~30 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sherwood Foods- Markham runs at 275% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Poultry and poultry products (except canned, packaged frozen) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Sherwood Foods- Markham: 6.1 TCR = 275% of Poultry and poultry products (except canned, packaged frozen) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sherwood Foods- Markham safety composite

Sherwood Foods- Markham scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 41%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

−4.6

2016→2018

Sherwood Foods- Markham injury rate improved

Sherwood Foods- Markham's TCR fell 4.6 from 7.3 in 2016 to 2.7 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.2 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.3 · 2017=8.2 · 2018=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424440 · Markham, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.1 · 275% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK P41
  • PHOTO Pete and Gerry's Org…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pete and Gerry's Organics Greencastle (0.3 TCR gap)

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Sherwood Foods- Markham in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sherwood Foods- Markham averages 6.1 TCR (275% of the Poultry and poultry products (except canned, packaged frozen) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Sherwood Foods- Markham TCR series: 2016=7.3 · 2017=8.2 · 2018=2.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Sherwood Foods- Markham falls in its industry

46 Poultry and poultry products ( establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Sherwood Foods- Markham (30 employees, TCR 6.1) among 26 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 78 employees and a TCR of 5.4 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 27 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sherwood Foods- Markham
Sherwood Foods- Markham (30 employees, TCR 6.1) among 26 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 78 employees and a TCR of 5.4

Sherwood Foods- Markham has fewer employees than the Poultry and poultry products (except can median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.4. 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
2018 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2017 8.2 8.2 3 0 0
2016 7.3 7.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424440 · IL · Markham

46 Poultry and poultry products (except canned, packaged frozen) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 22 employers in Markham, 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 Pete and Gerry's Organics Greencastle 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR C.B. Nichols Egg Ranch.Inc. DBA Chino Valley ranchers 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gingrich Animal Supply, Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buffum 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Odell Fire 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Northern N - IL Common Ops 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chicago Loop Tech 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spoon River Electric Cooperative, Inc. 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - IGQ1 2,441 FTE
CITY-NEAR STA-Markham (MDW-210) 130 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reyes Group Ltd 123 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Markham 122 FTE
NAT-TCR IHC Gainesville 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Oliphant & Co. 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR ISLF - Regents Park-Jacksonville, LLC 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR MARINEMAX East INC-SM7 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Office 93 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nashville NAS 2 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE LGE-KU Magnolia Compressor Station 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rehme Steel Windows & Doors 30 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: 2018, 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.