Grocery Store · Illinois

Trader Joe's 0697 Oak Park

Oak Park, IL · ~83 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
19.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0697 Oak Park runs at 563% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0697 Oak Park: 19.1 TCR = 563% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0697 Oak Park safety composite

Trader Joe's 0697 Oak Park 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 19.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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 0697 Oak Park: 13.8 → 24.2 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 36.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.22× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0697 Oak Park's TCR rose 10.4 from 13.8 in 2016 to 24.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 36.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Oak Park, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 19.1 · 563% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #1277/1293
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0711 Mi…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 81 inj
  • SIZE ~83 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0711 Milwaukee (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0697 Oak Park in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0697 Oak Park averages 19.1 TCR (563% 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 0697 Oak Park TCR series: 2016=13.8 · 2017=5.6 · 2018=9.2 · 2019=10.9 · 2020=16.2 · 2021=23.3 · 2022=36.1 · 2023=32.6 · 2024=24.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0697 Oak Park 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 #1277 safest of 1293 Grocery Store employers in Illinois.

Trader Joe's 0697 Oak Park (83 employees, TCR 19.1) 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 0697 Oak Park
Trader Joe's 0697 Oak Park (83 employees, TCR 19.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0697 Oak Park 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 24.2 4.3 17 0 0
2023 32.6 7.4 19 3 0
2022 36.1 24.6 12 10 0
2021 23.3 18.3 4 10 0
2020 16.2 9.8 8 2 0
2019 10.9 5.5 6 0 0
2018 9.2 3.7 5 0 0
2017 5.6 5.6 3 0 0
2016 13.8 9.9 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · IL · Oak Park

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 55 employers in Oak Park, 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 0711 Milwaukee 19.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 8003 19.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6962-SWY-0025-0025-00970 19.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0693 Chesterfield 19.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jo-Carroll Energy - Elizabeth 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE 86 - Walsh Federal, LLC 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Herlihy Mid-Continent Co. 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clark Roofing Co. 83 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rush Oak Park Hospital 1,483 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-V680 1,015 FTE
CITY-NEAR West Suburban Medical Center 936 FTE
CITY-NEAR Village of Oak Park 354 FTE
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0711 Milwaukee 19.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Blue Diamond Steel Casting LLC 19.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Copeland Precast 19.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Westin Mission Hills Villas 19.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0733 Roswell 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0675 Bloomfield Hills 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gutchess Freedom Incorporated 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vanguard Products Corporation 83 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.