Supermarkets and Other Grocery Except Convenience Stores · Illinois

531-00522

Chicago, IL · ~192 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

531-00522 runs at 114% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Supermarkets and Other Grocery Except Convenience Stores workplace, earning a grade C.

531-00522: 3.9 TCR = 114% of Supermarkets and Other Grocery Except Convenience Stores BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

531-00522 safety composite

531-00522 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 62% 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.72 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

531-00522: 1.8 → 4.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.22× in 2024

531-00522's TCR rose 2.9 from 1.8 in 2016 to 4.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 114% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #373/1293
  • PHOTO SWY-0017-0017-01639 …
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 37 inj
  • SIZE ~192 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SWY-0017-0017-01639 FAC-01639-WILLIAMS-AZ (0.0 TCR gap)

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531-00522 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 531-00522 averages 3.9 TCR (114% 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

531-00522 TCR series: 2016=1.8 · 2017=3.4 · 2018=4.3 · 2019=7.5 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=3.9 · 2022=2.4 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=4.7 · BLS 3.4

Where 531-00522 falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery establishments

Safer than 62% 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 #373 safest of 1293 Supermarkets and Other Grocery employers in Illinois.

531-00522 (192 employees, TCR 3.9) 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 531-00522
531-00522 (192 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

531-00522 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 4.7 4.7 6 0 0
2023 3.6 3.6 3 1 0
2022 2.4 2.4 1 2 0
2021 3.9 3.9 1 4 0
2020 3.4 3.4 2 3 0
2019 7.5 5.2 10 0 0
2018 4.3 3.6 6 0 0
2017 3.4 1.4 5 0 0
2016 1.8 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · IL · Chicago

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 · 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 SWY-0017-0017-01639 FAC-01639-WILLIAMS-AZ 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SWY-0017-0017-03173 FAC-03173-SAN TAN VALLEY-AZ 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 703-00033 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 20500002-443 STORE 443 - HEMET 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Department of Streets & Sanitation - Bureau of Forestry 192 FTE
STATE-SIZE First Student Belvidere 192 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4102 TRACK MAINTENANCE 192 FTE
STATE-SIZE FedEx 500 COMMERCE 192 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 Filtration Group LLC 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Easypak Leominster 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR American Red Cross - 4700 Mt Hope Dr 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Real Alloy Recycling, Inc. Morgantown, KY 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Owens & Minor/Halyard Health 192 FTE
NAT-SIZE Haworth Bruce 192 FTE
NAT-SIZE AHF, LLC dba AHF Products 192 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ivoclar Vivadent 192 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.