Grocery stores · Illinois

Jerry's Fruit and Garden Center

Name: Jerry's Fruit and Garden Center Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Niles, IL · ~134 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

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Excellent Safety Record: 1.0
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Jerry's Fruit and Garden Center runs at 29% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade A.

Jerry's Fruit and Garden Center: 1.0 TCR = 29% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Jerry's Fruit and Garden Center safety composite

Jerry's Fruit and Garden Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% 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).

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

Jerry's Fruit and Garden Center held a steady TCR band

Jerry's Fruit and Garden Center's TCR held near 0.1 from 1.2 in 2018 to 1.1 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 1.2 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=1.2 · 2019=0.6 · 2020=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Niles, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 29% of ind

DART 0.6 DART
RANK #19/1293
PHOTO FAREWAY STORES, INC.…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 4 inj
SIZE ~134 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FAREWAY STORES, INC. 034 IOWA CITY (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Jerry's Fruit and Garden Center averages 1.0 TCR (29% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

Jerry's Fruit and Garden Center TCR series: 2018=1.2 · 2019=0.6 · 2020=1.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Jerry's Fruit and Garden Center falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 98% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 1293 Grocery stores employers in Illinois.

Jerry's Fruit and Garden Center (134 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Jerry's Fruit and Garden Center has more employees than the Grocery stores 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
2020	1.1	0.6	1	1
2019	0.6	0.6	1	0
2018	1.2	0.6	2	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · IL · Niles

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 111 employers in Niles, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	FAREWAY STORES, INC. 034 IOWA CITY	IOWA CITY, IA	1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	FAREWAY STORES, INC. 044 BETTENDORF	BETTENDORF, IA	1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	FAREWAY STORES, INC. 118 NEBRASKA CITY	NEBRASKA CITY, NE	1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Lowes Foods #262	CARY, NC	1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Korte Construction Company DBA The Korte Company	HIGHLAND	134 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Chicago - #70	SCHILLER PARK	134 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Area Erectors - Rockford	ROCKFORD	134 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Pentegra Systems Naperville	NAPERVILLE	134 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Aerospace Business Groups : Niles	Niles	1,010 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Airframe Systems : Niles	Niles	978 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Shure Incorporated	Niles	719 FTE
CITY-NEAR	3320	Niles	683 FTE
NAT-TCR	FairField Inn & Suites	Verona, NY	1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Western Customer Service #987	Ontario, CA	1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Grinder, Taber and Grinder, Inc.	Memphis, TN	1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Premier Energy Services	Lawrenceburg, IN	1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Sharp HealthCare-SOC	San Diego, CA	134 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Sharp Rees-Stealy-OR	Chula Vista, CA	134 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Chrysler Museum of Art	Norfolk, VA	134 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Bert Hazekamp & Son	Muskegon, MI	134 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.