Gravy canning · Illinois

Vanee Foods Company

Berkeley, IL · ~188 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vanee Foods Company runs at 266% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Gravy canning workplace, earning a grade F.

Vanee Foods Company: 8.8 TCR = 266% of Gravy canning BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vanee Foods Company safety composite

Vanee Foods Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Vanee Foods Company: 7.3 → 10.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 11.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.18× in 2024

Vanee Foods Company's TCR rose 3.6 from 7.3 in 2016 to 10.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 11.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311422 · Berkeley, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 266% of ind

  • DART 10.3 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Canning 224 Wilmot
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 103 inj
  • SIZE ~188 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Canning 224 Wilmot (0.1 TCR gap)

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Vanee Foods Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vanee Foods Company averages 8.8 TCR (266% of the Gravy canning BLS benchmark).

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

Vanee Foods Company TCR series: 2016=7.3 · 2017=6.1 · 2018=11.2 · 2020=10.8 · 2022=8.9 · 2023=6.1 · 2024=10.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Vanee Foods Company falls in its industry

67 Gravy canning establishments

Safer than 13% 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 #5 safest of 5 Gravy canning employers in Illinois.

Vanee Foods Company (188 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 189 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Vanee Foods Company
Vanee Foods Company (188 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 189 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Vanee Foods Company has fewer employees than the Gravy canning median and a higher 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
2024 10.9 10.3 18 1 0
2023 6.1 6.1 13 0 0
2022 8.9 7.5 16 2 0
2020 10.8 10.1 16 1 0
2018 11.2 9.3 18 0 0
2017 6.1 5.6 10 1 0
2016 7.3 6.7 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311422 · IL · Berkeley

67 Gravy canning employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 11 employers in Berkeley, 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 Canning 224 Wilmot 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fiesta Canning Co. Inc 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fiesta Canning Company 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR La Regina Atlantica - Alma 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hayes Services, LLC 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE PCI Chicago Interior 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE Affy Tapple, LLC 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE Richelieu Foods, Inc. - Wheeling 188 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berkeley School District 87 383 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5233-SEG1-5233 VT-BERK 334 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fuse LLC 168 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mittera - Chicago 139 FTE
NAT-TCR Branch 249 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Hollywood Park 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Roers Construction Company 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR NAV 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Giant Eagle #4093 188 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Garden's Rehab and Care Center 188 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pratt & Whitney Amercon 188 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gilco Contracting, Inc. 188 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, 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.