Supermarkets and Other Grocery Except Convenience Stores · Illinois

531-00502

Vernon Hills, IL · ~228 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

531-00502 runs at 123% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Supermarkets and Other Grocery Except Convenience Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

531-00502: 4.2 TCR = 123% of Supermarkets and Other Grocery Except Convenience Stores BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

531-00502 safety composite

531-00502 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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%).

531-00502 held a steady TCR band

531-00502's TCR held near 0.2 from 2.9 in 2016 to 3.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.9 · 2017=3.9 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=4.2 · 2020=5.7 · 2021=6.8 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Vernon Hills, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 123% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #437/1293
  • PHOTO Store 1025
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 51 inj
  • SIZE ~228 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store 1025 (0.0 TCR gap)

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531-00502 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 531-00502 averages 4.2 TCR (123% 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 2026-09-26

531-00502 TCR series: 2016=2.9 · 2017=3.9 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=4.2 · 2020=5.7 · 2021=6.8 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 3.4

Where 531-00502 falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery establishments

Safer than 57% 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 #437 safest of 1293 Supermarkets and Other Grocery employers in Illinois.

531-00502 (228 employees, TCR 4.2) 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate 531-00502
531-00502 (228 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

531-00502 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 3.1 3.1 4 0 0
2023 3.5 3.5 3 1 0
2022 4.8 4.8 3 3 0
2021 6.8 6.8 8 2 0
2020 5.7 3.8 8 1 0
2019 4.2 3.6 7 0 0
2018 2.8 1.1 5 0 0
2017 3.9 3.4 7 0 0
2016 2.9 0.5 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · IL · Vernon Hills

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 · 65 employers in Vernon Hills, 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 1025 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6400-SWY 0017 0272 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10109 West Hollywood 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 20500002-381 STORE 381 - BUENA PARK 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE DO & CO 228 FTE
STATE-SIZE SODEXO AT NU EVANSTON-SARGENT HALL 228 FTE
STATE-SIZE Superior Air Ground Ambulance Service of Indiana, Inc 228 FTE
STATE-SIZE Antioch 228 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vernon Hills 1,273 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rust-Oleum 580 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vernon Hills, IL - BCU 434 FTE
CITY-NEAR BD Vernon Hills 375 FTE
NAT-TCR Cattlemens 08 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR United Warehouse Company Wichita 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR GO & J Investment Inc 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Kaman Aerospace Group - Kaman Air Vehicles 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Schwebel's Youngstown Bakery 228 FTE
NAT-SIZE HandCraft Linen Services - Healthcare HP 228 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yukon Plastering, Inc. 228 FTE
NAT-SIZE NV Energy-Ryan 228 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, 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.