Potato chips manufacturing · Illinois

Snak King Corp - Chicago, IL

Chicago, IL · ~96 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Snak King Corp - Chicago, IL runs at 216% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Potato chips manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Snak King Corp - Chicago, IL: 8.8 TCR = 216% of Potato chips manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Snak King Corp - Chicago, IL safety composite

Snak King Corp - Chicago, IL scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Snak King Corp - Chicago, IL: 7.7 → 10.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 10.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.63× in 2018

Snak King Corp - Chicago, IL's TCR rose 2.3 from 7.7 in 2016 to 10.0 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 216% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #12/13
  • PHOTO Cherry Site
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~96 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cherry Site (0.0 TCR gap)

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Snak King Corp - Chicago, IL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Snak King Corp - Chicago, IL averages 8.8 TCR (216% of the Potato chips manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Snak King Corp - Chicago, IL TCR series: 2016=7.7 · 2018=10 · BLS 4.1

Where Snak King Corp - Chicago, IL falls in its industry

253 Potato chips manufacturing establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 13 Potato chips manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Snak King Corp - Chicago, IL (96 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 Snak King Corp - Chicago, IL
Snak King Corp - Chicago, IL (96 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Snak King Corp - Chicago, IL has fewer employees than the Potato chips manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 10.0 5.5 9 0 0
2016 7.7 3.9 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · IL · Chicago

253 Potato chips manufacturing 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 Cherry Site 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ira Middleswarth & Son, Inc 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mestizo Foods, LLC 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manufacturing 9.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience UTI1 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE CLM Midwest 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Toro Construction Corp 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lytle Electric Company 96 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 Northgate Bilo Foods and Pharmacy 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR ModRoto Madison, IN 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Plumbing & Heating 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR QSI- GSF Opelika 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Peapod S&S East Hartford, Ct 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3311 Capital Boulevard 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Praters 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Windsor - Aldi 96 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, 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.