Potato chips manufacturing · Illinois

Snak King - Freeport

Freeport, IL · ~414 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Snak King - Freeport runs at 125% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Potato chips manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Snak King - Freeport: 5.1 TCR = 125% of Potato chips manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Snak King - Freeport safety composite

Snak King - Freeport scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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 - Freeport: 4.6 → 5.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 5.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.96× in 2018

Snak King - Freeport's TCR rose 1.0 from 4.6 in 2016 to 5.6 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Freeport, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 125% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #6/13
  • PHOTO Rudolph Foods Compan…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 43 inj
  • SIZE ~414 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rudolph Foods Company Lima (0.0 TCR gap)

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Snak King - Freeport in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Snak King - Freeport averages 5.1 TCR (125% 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 - Freeport TCR series: 2016=4.6 · 2018=5.6 · BLS 4.1

Where Snak King - Freeport falls in its industry

253 Potato chips manufacturing establishments

Safer than 30% 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 #6 safest of 13 Potato chips manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Snak King - Freeport (414 employees, TCR 5.1) 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 - Freeport
Snak King - Freeport (414 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Snak King - Freeport has more 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 5.6 4.9 24 0 0
2016 4.6 4.1 19 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · IL · Freeport

253 Potato chips manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 74 employers in Freeport, 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 Rudolph Foods Company Lima 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ara Food Corp 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 38341 - BROOK HOLLOW PLANT 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grand Rapids 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE The M&R Companies 414 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hillside 1 414 FTE
STATE-SIZE Woodfield 259 414 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2817 414 FTE
CITY-NEAR FHN - Memorial Hospital 1,100 FTE
CITY-NEAR FHN 1,057 FTE
CITY-NEAR Helm Mechanical 842 FTE
CITY-NEAR Honeywell 630 FTE
NAT-TCR 0388 - Kansas City, Mo 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Riverside (Cariv) 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Warren Hollow Metal Doors and Frames, Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Opelika (Alope) 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bemis Healthcare Packaging - Oshkosh 414 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shady Maple Smorgasbord 414 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Antonio (GH) 414 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alto Fabric 414 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.