Grocery Store · Illinois

Trader Joe's 0691 Chicago

Chicago, IL · ~90 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0691 Chicago runs at 524% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0691 Chicago: 17.8 TCR = 524% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0691 Chicago safety composite

Trader Joe's 0691 Chicago scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 22.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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 0691 Chicago: 10.5 → 36.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 60.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.26× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0691 Chicago's TCR rose 26.4 from 10.5 in 2016 to 36.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 60.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.8 · 524% of ind

  • DART 22.4 DART
  • RANK #1273/1293
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0076 St…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 99 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0076 Stockton (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0691 Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0691 Chicago averages 17.8 TCR (524% 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 0691 Chicago TCR series: 2016=10.5 · 2017=8 · 2018=9.1 · 2019=8.1 · 2020=13.8 · 2021=29 · 2022=60.5 · 2023=27.1 · 2024=36.9 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0691 Chicago falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 2% 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 #1273 safest of 1293 Grocery Store employers in Illinois.

Trader Joe's 0691 Chicago (90 employees, TCR 17.8) 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Trader Joe's 0691 Chicago
Trader Joe's 0691 Chicago (90 employees, TCR 17.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0691 Chicago 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 36.9 22.4 26 2 0
2023 27.1 16.3 17 3 0
2022 60.5 42.2 19 24 0
2021 29.0 15.3 13 6 0
2020 13.8 9.2 6 3 0
2019 8.1 4.9 5 0 0
2018 9.1 3.6 4 1 0
2017 8.0 4.0 4 0 0
2016 10.5 4.2 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · IL · Chicago

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, 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 0076 Stockton 17.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6962-SWY-0029-0029-01672 17.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0207 Palo Alto 17.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6962-ABS-0029-0028-00314 17.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 71G - Northern N - IL Gas Ops 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE ILAWC Peoria 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holland Construction Services, Inc 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0076 Stockton 17.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Masternick Memorial Health Care Center 17.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park Camp-Resort: Lakes Region, NH 17.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Frackville Vending 17.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0651 Springfield 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0762 Naples 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Public Safety 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Excel Truck Group Weyers Cave 90 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.