Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers · Illinois

The Chefs Warehouse

Chicago, IL · ~137 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Chefs Warehouse runs at 375% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

The Chefs Warehouse: 8.3 TCR = 375% of Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Chefs Warehouse safety composite

The Chefs Warehouse scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
B 1.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

−6.5

2022→2024

The Chefs Warehouse injury rate improved

The Chefs Warehouse's TCR fell 6.5 from 8.5 in 2022 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 14.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=8.5 · 2023=14.2 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 375% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #61/78
  • PHOTO Foodservice Jackson …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~137 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Foodservice Jackson - 9002 (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Chefs Warehouse in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Chefs Warehouse averages 8.3 TCR (375% of the Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

The Chefs Warehouse TCR series: 2022=8.5 · 2023=14.2 · 2024=2 · BLS 2.2

Where The Chefs Warehouse falls in its industry

1,651 Groceries, general-line, merch establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #61 safest of 78 Groceries, general-line, merch employers in Illinois.

The Chefs Warehouse (137 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate The Chefs Warehouse
The Chefs Warehouse (137 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

The Chefs Warehouse has fewer employees than the Groceries, general-line, merchant wholes median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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 2.0 1.0 9 9 0
2023 14.2 14.2 13 0 0
2022 8.5 8.5 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · IL · Chicago

1,651 Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers 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 Foodservice Jackson - 9002 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Performance Southern California - 1013 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Frederick MD 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atkins/Cedar Rapids 8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - IL Sub Maint Ops 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE P.J. Hoerr Inc 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newcastle Limited LLC 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edwards Engineering Inc 137 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 Hyatt Regency Long Beach 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cornell-Carr Company, Inc. 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR D2630 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Tighe Trucking 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Southwest Mold, Inc dba Seitz 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Progressive Construction Company, LLC 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Food Stores 6563 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Food Stores 106562 137 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. 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.