Supermarkets and Other Grocery Except Convenience Stores · Illinois

531-00501

Arlington Heights, IL · ~269 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

531-00501 runs at 110% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Supermarkets and Other Grocery Except Convenience Stores workplace, earning a grade C.

531-00501: 3.7 TCR = 110% of Supermarkets and Other Grocery Except Convenience Stores BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

531-00501 safety composite

531-00501 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

531-00501: 3.7 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.1× in 2024

531-00501's TCR rose 0.4 from 3.7 in 2016 to 4.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Arlington Heights, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 110% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #334/1293
  • PHOTO Store #54
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 48 inj
  • SIZE ~269 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store #54 (0.0 TCR gap)

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531-00501 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 531-00501 averages 3.7 TCR (110% of the Supermarkets and Other Grocery Except Convenience Stores BLS benchmark).

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

531-00501 TCR series: 2016=3.7 · 2017=4.4 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=6.5 · 2020=2.2 · 2022=5.6 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 3.4

Where 531-00501 falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #334 safest of 1293 Supermarkets and Other Grocery employers in Illinois.

531-00501 (269 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0100200300 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate 531-00501
531-00501 (269 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

531-00501 has more employees than the Supermarkets and Other Grocery Except Co median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 4.1 4.1 6 0 0
2023 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2022 5.6 4.9 4 4 0
2020 2.2 1.7 2 2 0
2019 6.5 4.3 12 0 0
2018 2.6 2.0 5 0 0
2017 4.4 1.9 9 0 0
2016 3.7 1.7 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · IL · Arlington Heights

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery Except Convenience Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 121 employers in Arlington Heights, 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 Store #54 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paxton Square Karns Food Store 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR WELLSBORO 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0687 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Great Lakes Plumbing & Heating Company 269 FTE
STATE-SIZE 010RCK-010-JLCLARK - ROCKFORD 269 FTE
STATE-SIZE Performance Fox River - 0785 269 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2816 269 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwest Community Hospital 3,365 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARLINGTON HEIGHTS SCHOOL DISTRICT 25 911 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4813-48130002-ENCORE CHICAGO 845 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lutheran Home and Serv For The Aged 796 FTE
NAT-TCR GREENLAWN-NY51 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR OmniSource Transport, LLC. - Michigan Trucking 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Golden Rod Broilers 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Gerdau Ameristeel US Inc. - St. Paul Mill 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE CCSF, Department of Technology 269 FTE
NAT-SIZE Penn Highlands Elk 269 FTE
NAT-SIZE Infinity Plumbing Designs, Inc 269 FTE
NAT-SIZE Planes Moving & Storage, Inc 269 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.