311999 All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing · Illinois

Uptons Naturals

Chicago, IL · ~19 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Uptons Naturals runs at 128% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical 311999 All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Uptons Naturals: 5.3 TCR = 128% of 311999 All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Uptons Naturals safety composite

Uptons Naturals scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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%).

TCR Δ

−10.5

2018→2021

Uptons Naturals injury rate improved

Uptons Naturals's TCR fell 10.5 from 10.5 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 10.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=10.5 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311999 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 128% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #29/39
  • PHOTO Allied Blending LP
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Allied Blending LP (0.0 TCR gap)

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Uptons Naturals in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Uptons Naturals averages 5.3 TCR (128% of the 311999 All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Uptons Naturals TCR series: 2018=10.5 · 2021=0 · BLS 4.1

Where Uptons Naturals falls in its industry

335 311999 All Other Miscellaneous establishments

Safer than 33% 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 #29 safest of 39 311999 All Other Miscellaneous employers in Illinois.

Uptons Naturals (19 employees, TCR 5.3) 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 Uptons Naturals
Uptons Naturals (19 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Uptons Naturals has fewer employees than the 311999 All Other Miscellaneous Food Manu 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 10.5 7.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311999 · IL · Chicago

335 311999 All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Allied Blending LP 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Raymundos Food Group 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pro-Form Laboratories 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wonton Food Inc New York Noodle 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gingerich Farms Partnerships 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tolono Research 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE PharmaCann Hillcrest 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE South Morgan Acres, LLC. 19 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 Custom Window Systems 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Solstice Senior Living at Fairport 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR #19 Toronto 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 038505-Phoenix Insp Svc Division 5.3 TCR

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: 2021, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.