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

Vital Proteins, LLC

Franklin Park, IL · ~249 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vital Proteins, LLC runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Drink powder mixes (except chocolate, coffee, milk based, tea) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Vital Proteins, LLC: 1.6 TCR = 40% of Drink powder mixes (except chocolate, coffee, milk based, tea) manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vital Proteins, LLC safety composite

Vital Proteins, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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

−1.9

2021→2024

Vital Proteins, LLC injury rate improved

Vital Proteins, LLC's TCR fell 1.9 from 2.9 in 2021 to 1.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 2.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=2.9 · 2022=2.0 · 2023=0.7 · 2024=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 40% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #8/39
  • PHOTO GloryBee - Productio…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~249 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GloryBee - Production Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vital Proteins, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vital Proteins, LLC averages 1.6 TCR (40% 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, LLC TCR series: 2021=2.9 · 2022=2 · 2023=0.7 · 2024=1 · BLS 4.1

Where Vital Proteins, LLC falls in its industry

335 Drink powder mixes (except cho establishments

Safer than 81% 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 #8 safest of 39 Drink powder mixes (except cho employers in Illinois.

Vital Proteins, LLC (249 employees, TCR 1.6) 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, LLC
Vital Proteins, LLC (249 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Vital Proteins, LLC 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
2024 1.0 0.7 3 0 0
2023 0.7 0.3 0 2 0
2022 2.0 1.6 4 1 0
2021 2.9 2.9 6 3 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 GloryBee - Production Facility 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Danisco Terre Haute 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Michael Foods - NPE Flandreau 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hebron 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dubak Electrical Maintenance Corporation 249 FTE
STATE-SIZE Treehouse foods 249 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mizkan America Corporate Office 249 FTE
STATE-SIZE Saint Elmo IL 249 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 Jet Aviation Bozeman 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Wurth Baer Supply Co BR 70 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Schaper LA 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Breeze National Inc 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fighting Jays Solar 20145001 249 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fort Loudoun Medical Center 249 FTE
NAT-SIZE 8027605 Heartland Automotive 249 FTE
NAT-SIZE TCC Corporate 249 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, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.