Protein Processing · Illinois

Stock Yards Chicago

Aurora, IL · ~113 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Stock Yards Chicago runs at 113% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Protein Processing workplace, earning a grade C.

Stock Yards Chicago: 3.7 TCR = 113% of Protein Processing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Stock Yards Chicago safety composite

Stock Yards Chicago scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% 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).

D

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

Stock Yards Chicago: 2.6 → 6.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.72× in 2024

Stock Yards Chicago's TCR rose 3.8 from 2.6 in 2019 to 6.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Aurora, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 113% of ind

  • DART 6.4 DART
  • RANK #22/49
  • PHOTO ProPortion Foods LLC
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~113 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ProPortion Foods LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Stock Yards Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Stock Yards Chicago averages 3.7 TCR (113% of the Protein Processing BLS benchmark).

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

Stock Yards Chicago TCR series: 2019=2.6 · 2020=3 · 2021=0.8 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=6.8 · 2024=6.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Stock Yards Chicago falls in its industry

613 Protein Processing establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 49 Protein Processing employers in Illinois.

Stock Yards Chicago (113 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 Stock Yards Chicago
Stock Yards Chicago (113 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Stock Yards Chicago has fewer employees than the Protein Processing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2024 6.4 6.4 8 0 0
2023 6.8 6.8 8 0 0
2022 2.9 1.7 5 0 0
2021 0.8 0.0 1 0 0
2020 3.0 2.0 3 0 0
2019 2.6 1.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · IL · Aurora

613 Protein Processing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 325 employers in Aurora, 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 ProPortion Foods LLC 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Surlean Foods San Antonio 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fort Worth Grind 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rock Island Service Building 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Four Rivers Sanitation Authority 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Graycor Construction Company Inc. 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bennett & Brosseau Roofing, Inc. 113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Indian Prairie School District 204 3,309 FTE
CITY-NEAR Factor Aurora 2,167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rush Copley Medical Center, Inc. 2,163 FTE
CITY-NEAR ANDY FRAIN SERVICES INC 2,100 FTE
NAT-TCR Hagerstown 10174 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR General Engineering Company 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Cutler Repaving, Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Livingston Healthcare 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ecolab Engineering Center 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Technetics Semi 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE UFP Belchertown LLC 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Berner International 113 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, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.