Frozen dinners (except seafood-based) manufacturing · Illinois

Van lang foods

5227 Dansher Road, IL · ~111 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Van lang foods runs at 36% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Frozen dinners (except seafood-based) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Van lang foods: 1.2 TCR = 36% of Frozen dinners (except seafood-based) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Van lang foods safety composite

Van lang foods scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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

Van lang foods: 0.0 → 2.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.4 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2023

Van lang foods's TCR rose 2.4 from 0.0 in 2022 to 2.4 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311412 · 5227 Dansher Road, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 36% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #1/15
  • PHOTO Nestle
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~111 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nestle (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Illinois employers → · Look up another →

Van lang foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Van lang foods averages 1.2 TCR (36% of the Frozen dinners (except seafood-based) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Van lang foods TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Van lang foods falls in its industry

274 Frozen dinners (except seafood establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 15 Frozen dinners (except seafood employers in Illinois.

Van lang foods (111 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 201 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Van lang foods
Van lang foods (111 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 201 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Van lang foods has fewer employees than the Frozen dinners (except seafood-based) ma median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2023 2.4 2.4 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311412 · IL · 5227 Dansher Road

274 Frozen dinners (except seafood-based) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 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 Nestle 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR QUALITY STAR PRODUCTS LTD 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kahiki-Gahanna OH 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR JM Smucker Company 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Powerton Station 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE NG Bellwood Reporting Center 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Contegra Holdings, Inc. and Subsidiaries 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stenstrom Excavation and Blacktop Group 111 FTE
NAT-TCR Mount Saint Mary College 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR RESA Power - Wixom 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Dept. of Labor & Workforce Development (13) 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ogdensburg #030 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dept. of Administration (7) 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dept. of Fish & Game (22) 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kent Island Mechanical, Inc 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kuehne + Nagel Inc. (ELP-6319) 111 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: 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.