Supermarkets and Other Grocery except Convenience Stores · Illinois

Nai-0032-0032-03167 Fac-03167-South Chicago Heights-Il

South Chicago Heights, IL · ~185 workers · 2 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

Nai-0032-0032-03167 Fac-03167-South Chicago Heights-Il runs at 124% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Supermarkets and Other Grocery except Convenience Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Nai-0032-0032-03167 Fac-03167-South Chicago Heights-Il: 4.2 TCR = 124% of Supermarkets and Other Grocery except Convenience Stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nai-0032-0032-03167 Fac-03167-South Chicago Heights-Il safety composite

Nai-0032-0032-03167 Fac-03167-South Chicago Heights-Il scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% 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).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.9

2023→2024

Nai-0032-0032-03167 Fac-03167-South Chicago Heights-Il injury rate improved

Nai-0032-0032-03167 Fac-03167-South Chicago Heights-Il's TCR fell 1.9 from 5.2 in 2023 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=5.2 · 2024=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 124% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #441/1293
  • PHOTO Lowes Foods #270
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~185 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lowes Foods #270 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nai-0032-0032-03167 Fac-03167-South Chicago Heights-Il in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nai-0032-0032-03167 Fac-03167-South Chicago Heights-Il averages 4.2 TCR (124% 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

Nai-0032-0032-03167 Fac-03167-South Chicago Heights-Il TCR series: 2023=5.2 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Nai-0032-0032-03167 Fac-03167-South Chicago Heights-Il 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 #441 safest of 1293 Supermarkets and Other Grocery employers in Illinois.

Nai-0032-0032-03167 Fac-03167-South Chicago Heights-Il (185 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 Nai-0032-0032-03167 Fac-03167-South Chicago Heights-Il
Nai-0032-0032-03167 Fac-03167-South Chicago Heights-Il (185 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Nai-0032-0032-03167 Fac-03167-South Chicago Heights-Il 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 3.3 0.8 3 1 0
2023 5.2 4.3 2 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · IL · South Chicago 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 · 8 employers in South Chicago 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 Lowes Foods #270 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Murphy's Markets Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1093 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rouses Market #79 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE City of Fairview Heights 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE Teutopolis 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gonnella Baking Company 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mondelez Global, LLC Naperville Plant 185 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5472-NAI-0032-0032-03167 219 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5472-000003167 190 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cosmos Manufacturing, Inc. 99 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tufts Grinding, Inc. 46 FTE
NAT-TCR Holmes Lumber 497 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR STR0087 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Nyltm - Ny Capital 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Milwaukee Plumbing & Piping, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ecumen Lakeshore 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE D&N Bending 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE CA-Foothill S/C 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE ShopRite of Fishkill 185 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.