Cheese, cottage, manufacturing · Illinois

V&V Supremo Foods, Inc. - 21st ST

Chicago, IL · ~91 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

V&V Supremo Foods, Inc. - 21st ST runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cheese, cottage, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

V&V Supremo Foods, Inc. - 21st ST: 1.9 TCR = 58% of Cheese, cottage, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

V&V Supremo Foods, Inc. - 21st ST safety composite

V&V Supremo Foods, Inc. - 21st ST scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% 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)
A 1.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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

V&V Supremo Foods, Inc. - 21st ST: 1.3 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.33× in 2023

V&V Supremo Foods, Inc. - 21st ST's TCR rose 1.3 from 1.3 in 2022 to 2.5 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311511 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 58% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #2/20
  • PHOTO Saputo Cheese USA, I…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~91 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Saputo Cheese USA, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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V&V Supremo Foods, Inc. - 21st ST in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows V&V Supremo Foods, Inc. - 21st ST averages 1.9 TCR (58% of the Cheese, cottage, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

V&V Supremo Foods, Inc. - 21st ST TCR series: 2022=1.3 · 2023=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where V&V Supremo Foods, Inc. - 21st ST falls in its industry

457 Cheese, cottage, manufacturin establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 20 Cheese, cottage, manufacturin employers in Illinois.

V&V Supremo Foods, Inc. - 21st ST (91 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 140 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate V&V Supremo Foods, Inc. - 21st ST
V&V Supremo Foods, Inc. - 21st ST (91 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 140 employees and a TCR of 4.5

V&V Supremo Foods, Inc. - 21st ST has fewer employees than the Cheese, cottage, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 2.5 2.5 2 0 0
2022 1.3 1.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311511 · IL · Chicago

457 Cheese, cottage, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, 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 Saputo Cheese USA, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Price's - El Paso 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schreiber Foods Inc. - Grand Rapids 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR DFA FLUID - WINSTON-SALEM NC 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Havana Power Station 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dynamic Utility Solutions 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Campus Communications Group 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE MS - East Peroria, IL - 1EPI2 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR JHE Production LLC 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR grocery outlet of highland park 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR MCRT2 Hampton 1 Tenant LLC 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR NGAS-A810 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE HHG Galveston LLC - 69Y 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE WW Wood, Inc. 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unisource Mfg INC 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bodines Casino 91 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.