Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale · Illinois

Taylor Farms Illinois

Chicago, IL · ~425 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Taylor Farms Illinois runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale workplace, earning a grade B.

Taylor Farms Illinois: 3.0 TCR = 72% of Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS 4.1 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Taylor Farms Illinois safety composite

Taylor Farms Illinois scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

−2.2

2019→2024

Taylor Farms Illinois injury rate improved

Taylor Farms Illinois's TCR fell 2.2 from 3.5 in 2019 to 1.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=3.5 · 2020=5.5 · 2021=4.2 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311991 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 3.0 · 72% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #13/29
  • PHOTO Kraft Heinz
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 74 inj
  • SIZE ~425 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kraft Heinz (0.0 TCR gap)

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Taylor Farms Illinois in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Taylor Farms Illinois averages 3.0 TCR (72% 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 Illinois TCR series: 2019=3.5 · 2020=5.5 · 2021=4.2 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=1.3 · BLS 4.1

Where Taylor Farms Illinois falls in its industry

376 Prepared meals, perishable, pa establishments

Safer than 71% 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 #13 safest of 29 Prepared meals, perishable, pa employers in Illinois.

Taylor Farms Illinois (425 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 Illinois
Taylor Farms Illinois (425 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Taylor Farms Illinois has more employees than the Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for median and a lower 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
2024 1.3 1.1 7 0 0
2023 0.8 0.8 5 0 0
2022 2.5 2.5 13 0 0
2021 4.2 4.2 18 0 0
2020 5.5 4.9 17 0 0
2019 3.5 2.7 14 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 Kraft Heinz 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sanderson Farms Foods Division 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR GA Foods_St Pete 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR BEF Lima 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE D Construction, Inc. 425 FTE
STATE-SIZE CICERO IL PLANT 425 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nucor Steel Kankakee 425 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greco and Sons 425 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 The Fresh Market 155 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Plaskolite, LLC - Zanesville 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Louis Dreyfus Company - Grand Junction 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Port Securing and Maintenance of New Jersey 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Valero Bill Greehey Refinery West Plant 425 FTE
NAT-SIZE Braman Motorcars 425 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tampa RPC 425 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colt's Manufacturing Company LLC 425 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.