Grocery Store · Illinois

Trader Joe's 0698 Park Ridge

Park Ridge, IL · ~79 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0698 Park Ridge runs at 455% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0698 Park Ridge: 15.5 TCR = 455% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0698 Park Ridge safety composite

Trader Joe's 0698 Park Ridge 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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 0698 Park Ridge: 11.4 → 17.2 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 42.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.74× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0698 Park Ridge's TCR rose 5.8 from 11.4 in 2016 to 17.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 42.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 15.5 · 455% of ind

  • DART 11.5 DART
  • RANK #1256/1293
  • PHOTO 5472-NAI-0032-0032-0…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 57 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 5472-NAI-0032-0032-03453 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0698 Park Ridge in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0698 Park Ridge averages 15.5 TCR (455% 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 0698 Park Ridge TCR series: 2016=11.4 · 2017=6.6 · 2018=8.8 · 2019=8.2 · 2020=12.6 · 2021=42.4 · 2022=16.8 · 2023=15.1 · 2024=17.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0698 Park Ridge 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 #1256 safest of 1293 Grocery Store employers in Illinois.

Trader Joe's 0698 Park Ridge (79 employees, TCR 15.5) 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 0698 Park Ridge
Trader Joe's 0698 Park Ridge (79 employees, TCR 15.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0698 Park Ridge 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 17.2 11.5 12 0 0
2023 15.1 12.1 6 4 0
2022 16.8 13.5 7 3 0
2021 42.4 24.8 11 13 0
2020 12.6 10.8 7 0 0
2019 8.2 6.1 3 1 0
2018 8.8 6.6 4 0 0
2017 6.6 6.6 2 1 0
2016 11.4 6.8 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · IL · Park Ridge

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 35 employers in Park Ridge, 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-0032-0032-03453 15.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1106 - NSM Arbor Lodge 15.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vancouver-Andresen #064 15.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6400-SWY-0027-0027-00537 15.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE NG Crestwood Reporting Center 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Woodmark ,LLC 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Calumet City Plumbing Company and Heating 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Village of Niles Public Works 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Lutheran General Hospital 4,306 FTE
CITY-NEAR Park Ridge Park District 421 FTE
CITY-NEAR TheKey - IL, Park Ridge (1300 W Higgins Road) 322 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spark Therapy, LLC 309 FTE
NAT-TCR Police Department 15.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Oaks Correctional Facility 15.5 TCR
NAT-TCR PAM Rehab Roundrock 15.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Vsr LLC 15.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0731 Sandy Springs 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0747 Wilmington 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE S.J. Electro Systems, Inc. 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE WATERBURY 79 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.