Horseradish, prepared sauce, manufacturing · Illinois

Ventura Foods

Thornton, IL · ~85 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ventura Foods runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Horseradish, prepared sauce, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Ventura Foods: 3.4 TCR = 82% of Horseradish, prepared sauce, manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ventura Foods safety composite

Ventura Foods scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

Ventura Foods: 1.7 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.99× in 2022

Ventura Foods's TCR rose 2.7 from 1.7 in 2016 to 4.5 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.3 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311941 · Thornton, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 82% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #8/10
  • PHOTO United Foods Interna…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: United Foods International USA Inc. 23447 Cabot (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ventura Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ventura Foods averages 3.4 TCR (82% of the Horseradish, prepared sauce, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ventura Foods TCR series: 2016=1.7 · 2017=6.3 · 2019=3.3 · 2021=1.2 · 2022=4.5 · BLS 4.1

Where Ventura Foods falls in its industry

134 Horseradish, prepared sauce, m establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 10 Horseradish, prepared sauce, m employers in Illinois.

Ventura Foods (85 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 Ventura Foods
Ventura Foods (85 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Ventura Foods has fewer employees than the Horseradish, prepared sauce, manufacturi median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2022 4.5 3.3 3 1 0
2021 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2019 3.3 2.2 3 0 0
2017 6.3 4.2 6 0 0
2016 1.7 0.7 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311941 · IL · Thornton

134 Horseradish, prepared sauce, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 8 employers in Thornton, 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 United Foods International USA Inc. 23447 Cabot 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ventura Foods Waukesha 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kraft Heinz Company 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ventura Foods Saginaw 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Atkinson 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Utica UTI1 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monmouth, IL 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newton Power Station 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gallagher Asphalt Corporation 147 FTE
CITY-NEAR VILLAGE OF THORNTON 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR Roy Zenere Trucking & Excavating Inc. 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR Zenere Landscape, Inc. 35 FTE
NAT-TCR Old Town Clinic 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR DRM-ODFL 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR COL-ODFL 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 2904-ASM-MA 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE PSSI - 0876 JBS USA - Souderton 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Refrigeration Inc. (800) 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Mill of Bel Air 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Carmel-by-the-Sea 85 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: 2022, 2021, 2019, 2017, 2016. 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.