Food (i.e., groceries) stores · Illinois

Village Fresh Market

Carpentersville, IL · ~92 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Village Fresh Market runs at 201% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Food (i.e., groceries) stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Village Fresh Market: 6.8 TCR = 201% of Food (i.e., groceries) stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Village Fresh Market safety composite

Village Fresh Market scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.8

2017→2024

Village Fresh Market injury rate improved

Village Fresh Market's TCR fell 4.8 from 10.4 in 2017 to 5.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=10.4 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=5.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 6.8 · 201% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #859/1293
  • PHOTO 10153 Bellevue
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~92 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 10153 Bellevue (0.0 TCR gap)

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Village Fresh Market in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Village Fresh Market averages 6.8 TCR (201% of the Food (i.e., groceries) stores BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Village Fresh Market TCR series: 2017=10.4 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=5.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Village Fresh Market falls in its industry

30,654 Food (i.e., groceries) stores establishments

Safer than 27% 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 #859 safest of 1293 Food (i.e., groceries) stores employers in Illinois.

Village Fresh Market (92 employees, TCR 6.8) 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 Village Fresh Market
Village Fresh Market (92 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Village Fresh Market has fewer employees than the Food (i.e., groceries) stores 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 5.6 0.9 6 0 0
2023 4.5 0.0 3 0 0
2017 10.4 0.0 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · IL · Carpentersville

30,654 Food (i.e., groceries) stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 40 employers in Carpentersville, 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 10153 Bellevue 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10587 Spring Lake Wall 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 703-00744 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Breaux Mart Supermarkets #3 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Feldco Home Renewal Headquarters 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Graycor Southern Inc. (formerly known as Early Construction Inc.) 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Astec - Sterling 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE LA - Clune Construction Company 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR OTTO Engineering 536 FTE
CITY-NEAR Recreation Services 480 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1531 329 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1531 321 FTE
NAT-TCR Akron Steel Treating Company 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Grass Farm Garden Accents, William Y Gil Inc. 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Njavl - Mail Innovations Rpf 23 - Avenel Nj 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR HCA Houston Healthcare Medical Center 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mehler Engineered Products 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Axus Technology 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mills Supply Company 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Loveland HealthCare 92 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, 2017. 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.