Grocery Store · Illinois

Trader Joe's 0684 Lake Zurich

Lake Zurich, IL · ~50 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
20.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0684 Lake Zurich runs at 595% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0684 Lake Zurich: 20.2 TCR = 595% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0684 Lake Zurich safety composite

Trader Joe's 0684 Lake Zurich scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 20.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.64 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

Trader Joe's 0684 Lake Zurich: 5.8 → 18.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 33.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.23× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0684 Lake Zurich's TCR rose 12.8 from 5.8 in 2016 to 18.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 33.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Lake Zurich, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 20.2 · 595% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #1283/1293
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0109 Al…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 49 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0109 Alameda (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0684 Lake Zurich in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0684 Lake Zurich averages 20.2 TCR (595% 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 0684 Lake Zurich TCR series: 2016=5.8 · 2017=14.5 · 2018=8.5 · 2019=18.8 · 2020=18.4 · 2021=31.8 · 2022=32 · 2023=33.7 · 2024=18.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0684 Lake Zurich falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 1% 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 #1283 safest of 1293 Grocery Store employers in Illinois.

Trader Joe's 0684 Lake Zurich (50 employees, TCR 20.2) 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 Trader Joe's 0684 Lake Zurich
Trader Joe's 0684 Lake Zurich (50 employees, TCR 20.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0684 Lake Zurich 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 18.5 4.6 8 0 0
2023 33.7 24.1 8 6 0
2022 32.0 26.6 5 7 0
2021 31.8 23.9 7 5 0
2020 18.4 13.2 5 2 0
2019 18.8 10.8 7 0 0
2018 8.5 2.8 2 1 0
2017 14.5 8.7 5 0 0
2016 5.8 2.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · IL · Lake Zurich

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 84 employers in Lake Zurich, 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 0109 Alameda 20.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6400-SWY-0024-0024-03604 20.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0149 Hillsboro 20.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0715 Woodbury 20.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Champaign CMI1 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1240-Monmouth, IL 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Constellation Nuclear Services & Training Center (STC) 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Gas Storage 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR B and B Maintenance, Inc. 1,077 FTE
CITY-NEAR ECHO Incorporated 945 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC 915 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fresenius Kabi USA Lake Zurich Office 853 FTE
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0109 Alameda 20.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Dana Point Inn 20.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sherburne County Government Center - Sheriff (Jail) 20.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Parks & Rec Maintenance 20.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ritter Communications - Marked Tree 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Opportunity Center Administration 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brystar Contracting, Inc. 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Public Works 50 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.