Grocery Store · Illinois

Trader Joe's 0683 Downers Grove

Downers Grove, IL · ~78 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
24.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0683 Downers Grove runs at 729% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0683 Downers Grove: 24.8 TCR = 729% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0683 Downers Grove safety composite

Trader Joe's 0683 Downers Grove scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 24.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

Trader Joe's 0683 Downers Grove: 18.4 → 33.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 42.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.49× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0683 Downers Grove's TCR rose 15.1 from 18.4 in 2016 to 33.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 42.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Downers Grove, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 24.8 · 729% of ind

  • DART 12.2 DART
  • RANK #1291/1293
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0426 Ho…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 89 inj
  • SIZE ~78 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0426 Houston (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0683 Downers Grove in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0683 Downers Grove averages 24.8 TCR (729% of the Grocery Store BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Trader Joe's 0683 Downers Grove TCR series: 2016=18.4 · 2017=13.6 · 2018=12.8 · 2019=24.8 · 2020=21.4 · 2021=31.3 · 2022=42.2 · 2023=25.3 · 2024=33.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0683 Downers Grove falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 0% 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 #1291 safest of 1293 Grocery Store employers in Illinois.

Trader Joe's 0683 Downers Grove (78 employees, TCR 24.8) 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Trader Joe's 0683 Downers Grove
Trader Joe's 0683 Downers Grove (78 employees, TCR 24.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0683 Downers Grove has fewer employees than the Grocery Store 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
2024 33.5 12.2 20 2 0
2023 25.3 16.4 13 4 0
2022 42.2 35.4 9 16 0
2021 31.3 19.1 11 7 0
2020 21.4 17.9 4 8 0
2019 24.8 17.2 13 0 0
2018 12.8 6.4 6 0 0
2017 13.6 13.6 6 0 0
2016 18.4 13.8 7 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · IL · Downers Grove

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 139 employers in Downers 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 Trader Joe's 0426 Houston 24.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hollywood 12 24.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6365-537 24.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bakersfield - Coffee Rd #032 24.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bedford Grow LLC 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waukegan Station 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chicago West Tech 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corn Belt Energy Corporation 78 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Medical Group 5,319 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Support Centers 2,103 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital 1,958 FTE
CITY-NEAR ADVOCATE CHILDRENS HOSPITALS 1,734 FTE
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0426 Houston 24.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Structural Components, Inc. 24.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Farmington Community Library 24.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 1026 Jef1000 24.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0771 Delray Beach 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gutchess Hardwoods Incorporated 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cambridge Packaging Inc. 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eversource - Walpole 78 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.