Grocery Store · Illinois

Trader Joe's 0687 Arlington Heights

Arlington Heights, IL · ~75 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0687 Arlington Heights runs at 421% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0687 Arlington Heights: 14.3 TCR = 421% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0687 Arlington Heights safety composite

Trader Joe's 0687 Arlington Heights scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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 0687 Arlington Heights: 9.1 → 16.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 30.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.52× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0687 Arlington Heights's TCR rose 7.3 from 9.1 in 2016 to 16.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 30.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Arlington Heights, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.3 · 421% of ind

  • DART 7.5 DART
  • RANK #1243/1293
  • PHOTO 5472-NAI-0034-0034-0…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 5472-NAI-0034-0034-00295 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0687 Arlington Heights in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0687 Arlington Heights averages 14.3 TCR (421% 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 0687 Arlington Heights TCR series: 2016=9.1 · 2017=9.1 · 2018=6.5 · 2019=6 · 2020=17.6 · 2022=30.5 · 2023=19.4 · 2024=16.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0687 Arlington Heights falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 4% 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 #1243 safest of 1293 Grocery Store employers in Illinois.

Trader Joe's 0687 Arlington Heights (75 employees, TCR 14.3) 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 0687 Arlington Heights
Trader Joe's 0687 Arlington Heights (75 employees, TCR 14.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0687 Arlington Heights 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 16.4 7.5 10 1 0
2023 19.4 9.7 8 4 0
2022 30.5 21.0 7 9 0
2020 17.6 14.1 4 6 0
2019 6.0 4.0 3 0 0
2018 6.5 2.1 3 0 0
2017 9.1 6.8 3 1 0
2016 9.1 6.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · IL · Arlington Heights

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 121 employers in Arlington 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 5472-NAI-0034-0034-00295 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4169_8831 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR ROCHE BROS - WESTON 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4054-ABS-0020-0022-00218 14.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kankakee Nursery Co. 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenhouse 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Illinois American Water (Chicago Metro) 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Haier Plumbing & Heating, Inc. 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwest Community Hospital 3,365 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARLINGTON HEIGHTS SCHOOL DISTRICT 25 911 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4813-48130002-ENCORE CHICAGO 845 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lutheran Home and Serv For The Aged 796 FTE
NAT-TCR Qualex Manufacturing LLC 14.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Parish Electric 14.3 TCR
NAT-TCR COD007 14.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Aragon Pools & Spas, LLC Main Office 14.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0774 Wellington 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harris-McBurney Company 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale South Bay 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stoops Freightliner TC - Dayton 75 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, 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.