Grocery Store · Illinois
Trader Joe's 0703 Chicago
Chicago, IL · ~123 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 20.9
- Avg TCR
- 3.4
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Trader Joe's 0703 Chicago runs at 615% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.
Trader Joe's 0703 Chicago: 20.9 TCR = 615% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)
Trader Joe's 0703 Chicago safety composite
Trader Joe's 0703 Chicago 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).
16/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Total Case Rate (TCR)
- F 20.92 per 100 workers
Safer than 1% of industry peers
- DART rate
- F 10.71 per 100 workers
Safer than 9% 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 0703 Chicago: 14.3 → 18.5 TCR
Peak year 2021 @ 42.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.51× in 2024
Trader Joe's 0703 Chicago's TCR rose 4.2 from 14.3 in 2016 to 18.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 42.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).
OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard
Establishment book 445110 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID
Grade F · TCR 20.9 · 615% of ind
- DART 10.7 DART
- RANK #1287/1293
- PHOTO Trader Joe's 0453 Au…
- BOOK 9y book
- INJ 108 inj
- SIZE ~123 FTE
Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0453 Austin (0.0 TCR gap)
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Trader Joe's 0703 Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood
Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers
- This site
Trader Joe's 0703 Chicago
20.9 TCR
- Trader Joe's 0
Trader Joe's 0453 Austin
20.9 TCR
- Seafood City S
Seafood City Supermarket - South San Francisco
20.9 TCR
- Trader Joe's 0
Trader Joe's 0301 Boulder
20.9 TCR
- Store 1159
Store 1159
20.9 TCR
What this shows Trader Joe's 0703 Chicago averages 20.9 TCR (615% of the Grocery Store BLS benchmark).
Trader Joe's 0703 Chicago TCR series: 2016=14.3 · 2017=10.8 · 2018=9.5 · 2019=9.3 · 2020=11.5 · 2021=42.5 · 2022=38.5 · 2023=33.3 · 2024=18.5 · BLS 3.4
Where Trader Joe's 0703 Chicago falls in its industry
30,654 Grocery Store establishmentsSafer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.
Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1287 safest of 1293 Grocery Store employers in Illinois.
Trader Joe's 0703 Chicago has more 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 | 18.5 | 10.7 | 17 | 2 | 0 |
| 2023 | 33.3 | 15.7 | 26 | 8 | 0 |
| 2022 | 38.5 | 24.2 | 18 | 17 | 0 |
| 2021 | 42.5 | 32.8 | 10 | 25 | 0 |
| 2020 | 11.5 | 6.9 | 6 | 4 | 0 |
| 2019 | 9.3 | 4.7 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 9.5 | 6.8 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 10.8 | 9.3 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 14.3 | 4.3 | 9 | 1 | 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 0453 Austin | 20.9 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Seafood City Supermarket - South San Francisco | 20.9 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Trader Joe's 0301 Boulder | 20.9 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Store 1159 | 20.9 TCR |
| STATE-SIZE | City of Oak Forest - Public Works | 123 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | D.R. Horton, Inc. - Midwest (Chicago) | 123 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Reyes Group Ltd | 123 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Iroquois Paving Corporation | 123 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 | KVC Hospital Hays | 20.9 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Cletex, Inc | 20.9 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | 6458-ZNKL | 20.9 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | City Hall/Fire Station 1 | 20.9 TCR |
| NAT-SIZE | Jamestown Container Corporation | 123 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Marr Scaffolding Company | 123 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Chemetall | 123 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | USA KS Andover Plant | 123 FTE |
Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.