Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores · Illinois

5472-NAI-0032-0032-03479

Buffalo Grove, IL · ~156 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

5472-NAI-0032-0032-03479 runs at 191% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

5472-NAI-0032-0032-03479: 6.5 TCR = 191% of Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

5472-NAI-0032-0032-03479 safety composite

5472-NAI-0032-0032-03479 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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).

F

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

5472-NAI-0032-0032-03479: 5.1 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.09× in 2022

5472-NAI-0032-0032-03479's TCR rose 2.9 from 5.1 in 2020 to 8.0 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Buffalo Grove, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 191% of ind

  • DART 7.1 DART
  • RANK #810/1293
  • PHOTO The Fresh market 146
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~156 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Fresh market 146 (0.0 TCR gap)

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5472-NAI-0032-0032-03479 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 5472-NAI-0032-0032-03479 averages 6.5 TCR (191% 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

5472-NAI-0032-0032-03479 TCR series: 2020=5.1 · 2021=6.4 · 2022=8 · BLS 3.4

Where 5472-NAI-0032-0032-03479 falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery establishments

Safer than 30% 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 #810 safest of 1293 Supermarkets and Other Grocery employers in Illinois.

5472-NAI-0032-0032-03479 (156 employees, TCR 6.5) 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 5472-NAI-0032-0032-03479
5472-NAI-0032-0032-03479 (156 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

5472-NAI-0032-0032-03479 has more employees than the Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except C median and a higher 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
2022 8.0 7.1 4 5 0
2021 6.4 5.5 4 3 0
2020 5.1 3.4 3 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · IL · Buffalo Grove

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 · 66 employers in Buffalo Grove, 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 The Fresh market 146 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR LifeSource Natural Foods 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10352 Pompano Beach 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10012 Hadley 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Merit Contractors, LLC 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southside Soapbox 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berry Global 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advanced Plastic Corporation, Inc. 156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal Building Services, Inc. 2,440 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flex - Buffalo Grove 1,217 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flex Buffalo Grove - 700 Building 798 FTE
CITY-NEAR BT Buffalo Grove 760 FTE
NAT-TCR 6400-SWY-0027-0027-00593 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Fastdecks, Inc. 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 240153-Andover Po 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 332220-Dumont Po 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4054-ABS-0030-0030-00037 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE SuperMax Caguas 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6962-SWY-0025-0025-02941 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6962-SWY-0025-0025-02900 156 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: 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.