Grocery Store · California

Trader Joe's 0009 Modesto

Modesto, CA · ~72 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0009 Modesto runs at 431% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0009 Modesto: 14.7 TCR = 431% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0009 Modesto safety composite

Trader Joe's 0009 Modesto 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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 0009 Modesto: 10.4 → 16.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 32.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.56× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0009 Modesto's TCR rose 5.9 from 10.4 in 2017 to 16.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 32.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Modesto, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.7 · 431% of ind

  • DART 8.2 DART
  • RANK #4216/4686
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0139 Ev…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 40 inj
  • SIZE ~72 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0139 Everett (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0009 Modesto in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0009 Modesto averages 14.7 TCR (431% 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 0009 Modesto TCR series: 2017=10.4 · 2018=0 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=13.4 · 2021=32 · 2022=26.7 · 2023=14 · 2024=16.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0009 Modesto 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 California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4216 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Trader Joe's 0009 Modesto (72 employees, TCR 14.7) 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 0009 Modesto
Trader Joe's 0009 Modesto (72 employees, TCR 14.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0009 Modesto 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 16.3 8.2 12 0 0
2023 14.0 6.2 6 3 0
2022 26.7 22.9 6 8 0
2021 32.0 29.9 7 8 0
2020 13.4 4.5 5 1 0
2019 4.3 0.0 0 2 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 10.4 5.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Modesto

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 418 employers in Modesto, CA · 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 0139 Everett 14.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0256 Santa Monica 14.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oklahoma City #149 14.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6400-SWY-0020-0020-02964 14.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Monterey Pacific, LLC 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arts Ranch 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mellano & Company - Los Angeles Wholesale House 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greg Hooker dba Diamond H Dairy 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Valley Hospitals (30240) 3,153 FTE
CITY-NEAR Modesto Operations 3,043 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-930 3,018 FTE
CITY-NEAR 930 DOCTORS MEDICAL CENTER OF MODESTO 2,759 FTE
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0139 Everett 14.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Methuen Village 14.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Little sisters of the Poor, St. Joseph's Home for the Elderly 14.7 TCR
NAT-TCR AGlobe Logistics 14.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Annandale High School 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fulghum Industries, Inc. 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Barnum Elementary School 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0708 Kalamazoo 72 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.