Noodles, fried, manufacturing · Illinois

Sokol and Company

Countryside, IL · ~104 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sokol and Company runs at 220% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Noodles, fried, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Sokol and Company: 9.0 TCR = 220% of Noodles, fried, manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sokol and Company safety composite

Sokol and Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.77 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%).

Sokol and Company held a steady TCR band

Sokol and Company's TCR held near 0.2 from 7.0 in 2017 to 7.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 14.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.0 · 2018=14.9 · 2019=8.6 · 2021=7.5 · 2024=7.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311999 · Countryside, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 220% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #36/39
  • PHOTO FIRST CHOICE INGREDI…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 45 inj
  • SIZE ~104 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FIRST CHOICE INGREDIENTS (0.1 TCR gap)

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Sokol and Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sokol and Company averages 9.0 TCR (220% of the Noodles, fried, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sokol and Company TCR series: 2017=7 · 2018=14.9 · 2019=8.6 · 2021=7.5 · 2024=7.2 · BLS 4.1

Where Sokol and Company falls in its industry

335 Noodles, fried, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #36 safest of 39 Noodles, fried, manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Sokol and Company (104 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sokol and Company
Sokol and Company (104 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Sokol and Company has more employees than the Noodles, fried, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2024 7.2 5.8 5 0 0
2021 7.5 5.6 8 0 0
2019 8.6 7.6 9 0 0
2018 14.9 12.1 16 0 0
2017 7.0 3.0 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311999 · IL · Countryside

335 Noodles, fried, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 31 employers in Countryside, 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 FIRST CHOICE INGREDIENTS 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR B&G Foods 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Yeast Corp. 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Canopy Foods-Downingtown Plant 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 76G - Southern - IL Gas Ops 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Madison Construction 2016 OSHA 300 & 300A 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE C & L Maintenance inc. 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elliot Construction Corporation 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vee Pak, LLC dba Voyant Beauty 562 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vee Pak - Countryside, IL 514 FTE
CITY-NEAR Helping Hand Center 250 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5472-000003154 185 FTE
NAT-TCR 2603 Tul68 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Waterford at College Station 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Handforge 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mt. View Care & Rehabilitation Center 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Laurels of Galesburg 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Libraries 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nashville Tn - 217 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE BTX Processing 104 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: 2024, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.