Drink powder mixes (except chocolate, coffee, milk based, tea) manufacturing · Illinois

Vital Proteins - Franklin Park

Franklin Park, IL · ~185 workers · 2 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

Vital Proteins - Franklin Park runs at 83% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Drink powder mixes (except chocolate, coffee, milk based, tea) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Vital Proteins - Franklin Park: 3.4 TCR = 83% of Drink powder mixes (except chocolate, coffee, milk based, tea) manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vital Proteins - Franklin Park safety composite

Vital Proteins - Franklin Park scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Vital Proteins - Franklin Park: 2.1 → 4.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 4.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.1× in 2020

Vital Proteins - Franklin Park's TCR rose 2.5 from 2.1 in 2019 to 4.7 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311999 · Franklin Park, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 83% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #22/39
  • PHOTO California Natural C…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~185 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: California Natural Color (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vital Proteins - Franklin Park in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vital Proteins - Franklin Park averages 3.4 TCR (83% of the Drink powder mixes (except chocolate, coffee, milk based, tea) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Vital Proteins - Franklin Park TCR series: 2019=2.1 · 2020=4.7 · BLS 4.1

Where Vital Proteins - Franklin Park falls in its industry

335 Drink powder mixes (except cho establishments

Safer than 53% 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 #22 safest of 39 Drink powder mixes (except cho employers in Illinois.

Vital Proteins - Franklin Park (185 employees, TCR 3.4) 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 Vital Proteins - Franklin Park
Vital Proteins - Franklin Park (185 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Vital Proteins - Franklin Park has more employees than the Drink powder mixes (except chocolate, co median and a lower 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
2020 4.7 3.7 10 0 0
2019 2.1 2.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311999 · IL · Franklin Park

335 Drink powder mixes (except chocolate, coffee, milk based, tea) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 127 employers in Franklin Park, 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 California Natural Color 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zoroco Packaging--Frozen 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sugar Foods Corporation Villa Rica 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Food Sciences Corporation 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE City of Fairview Heights 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE Teutopolis 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gonnella Baking Company 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mondelez Global, LLC Naperville Plant 185 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILFRA - FRANKLIN PARK HUB 799 FTE
CITY-NEAR FRANKLIN PARK HUB (ILFRA) 740 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sloan Franklin Park 709 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hill Mechanical Corp 703 FTE
NAT-TCR The Alternative Living Group, Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Tulane Lakeside Campus 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Gage Bilt Michigan 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sea Pro Boats, LLC 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Coleman Portage BH 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stanleytown Health and Rehabilitation Center 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lynchburg Health and Rehabilitation Center 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE Encompass Health Rehabilation Hsopital The Vintage 185 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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.