Grocery Store · Illinois

Trader Joe's 0702 Evanston

Evanston, IL · ~96 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0702 Evanston runs at 516% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0702 Evanston: 17.6 TCR = 516% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0702 Evanston safety composite

Trader Joe's 0702 Evanston scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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 0702 Evanston: 5.2 → 16.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 41.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.5× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0702 Evanston's TCR rose 11.1 from 5.2 in 2016 to 16.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 41.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 17.6 · 516% of ind

  • DART 8.8 DART
  • RANK #1271/1293
  • PHOTO Store 8007
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 76 inj
  • SIZE ~96 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store 8007 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0702 Evanston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0702 Evanston averages 17.6 TCR (516% 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 0702 Evanston TCR series: 2016=5.2 · 2017=15.3 · 2018=9.1 · 2019=15.4 · 2020=9.2 · 2021=17.2 · 2022=29 · 2023=41.2 · 2024=16.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0702 Evanston 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 #1271 safest of 1293 Grocery Store employers in Illinois.

Trader Joe's 0702 Evanston (96 employees, TCR 17.6) 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 0702 Evanston
Trader Joe's 0702 Evanston (96 employees, TCR 17.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0702 Evanston 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 8.8 13 0 0
2023 41.2 25.4 20 14 0
2022 29.0 20.9 9 9 0
2021 17.2 12.5 5 6 0
2020 9.2 6.2 4 2 0
2019 15.4 10.8 8 2 0
2018 9.1 3.0 6 0 0
2017 15.3 11.9 8 1 0
2016 5.2 3.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · IL · Evanston

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 87 employers in Evanston, 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 Store 8007 17.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 69030001-040 CARDENAS MARKETS 40 17.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6400-SWY-0027-0027-02734 17.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5472-NAI-0033-0033-01324 17.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience UTI1 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE CLM Midwest 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Toro Construction Corp 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lytle Electric Company 96 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwestern University 13,993 FTE
CITY-NEAR EVANSTON HOSPITAL 3,075 FTE
CITY-NEAR CITY OF EVANSTON 1,062 FTE
CITY-NEAR Citywide 1,020 FTE
NAT-TCR St. Mary's Alzheimer's Center 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 8007 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Beecher's Production WA 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Biddeford Estates 17.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0672 Dublin 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0760 Jacksonville Beach 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0603 Wayne 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lynch Road Service Center 96 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.