Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale · Illinois

Taylor Farms Artesian

Chicago, IL · ~344 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Taylor Farms Artesian runs at 188% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale workplace, earning a grade D.

Taylor Farms Artesian: 7.7 TCR = 188% of Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Taylor Farms Artesian safety composite

Taylor Farms Artesian scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

−2.3

2016→2018

Taylor Farms Artesian injury rate improved

Taylor Farms Artesian's TCR fell 2.3 from 10.6 in 2016 to 8.3 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 10.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.6 · 2017=4.3 · 2018=8.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311991 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.7 · 188% of ind

  • DART 7.8 DART
  • RANK #23/29
  • PHOTO Knott's Wholesale Fo…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 93 inj
  • SIZE ~344 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Knott's Wholesale Foods (0.0 TCR gap)

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Taylor Farms Artesian in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Taylor Farms Artesian averages 7.7 TCR (188% of the Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS benchmark).

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

Taylor Farms Artesian TCR series: 2016=10.6 · 2017=4.3 · 2018=8.3 · BLS 4.1

Where Taylor Farms Artesian falls in its industry

376 Prepared meals, perishable, pa establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 29 Prepared meals, perishable, pa employers in Illinois.

Taylor Farms Artesian (344 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Taylor Farms Artesian
Taylor Farms Artesian (344 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Taylor Farms Artesian has more employees than the Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 8.3 7.8 35 0 0
2017 4.3 3.3 17 0 0
2016 10.6 9.8 41 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311991 · IL · Chicago

376 Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale 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 Knott's Wholesale Foods 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Red Monkey Foods, Inc- SF Salt 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Home Chef - Bedford Park 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nanak Foods, Inc. 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Afton Chemical Corporation - Sauget, IL 344 FTE
STATE-SIZE CPI Mount Prospect 344 FTE
STATE-SIZE 10252 Lincoln Park 344 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1421 344 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 Bareville Flooring and Tile 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Lowes Foods #178 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR St Charles Health System Redmond 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Enoplastic USA, Inc 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pace industries, Harrison Division 344 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sabic, Bkv, Al 344 FTE
NAT-SIZE Splitrock Resort 344 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thor Motor Coach/Plant 650 344 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.