Grocery Store · California

Trader Joe's 0018 S. Pasadena

S. Pasadena, CA · ~104 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
25.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0018 S. Pasadena runs at 734% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0018 S. Pasadena: 25.0 TCR = 734% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0018 S. Pasadena safety composite

Trader Joe's 0018 S. Pasadena scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 24.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 19.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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 0018 S. Pasadena: 9.6 → 22.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 47.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.79× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0018 S. Pasadena's TCR rose 12.7 from 9.6 in 2017 to 22.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 47.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · S. Pasadena, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 25.0 · 734% of ind

  • DART 19.7 DART
  • RANK #4655/4686
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0713 Ma…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 90 inj
  • SIZE ~104 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0713 Maple Grove (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0018 S. Pasadena in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0018 S. Pasadena averages 25.0 TCR (734% 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 0018 S. Pasadena TCR series: 2017=9.6 · 2018=13.8 · 2019=13.9 · 2020=35.5 · 2021=22.2 · 2022=47.9 · 2023=34.6 · 2024=22.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0018 S. Pasadena falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 0% 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 #4655 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Trader Joe's 0018 S. Pasadena (104 employees, TCR 25.0) 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Trader Joe's 0018 S. Pasadena
Trader Joe's 0018 S. Pasadena (104 employees, TCR 25.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0018 S. Pasadena 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 22.3 19.7 15 2 0
2023 34.6 29.5 21 6 0
2022 47.9 39.4 17 17 0
2021 22.2 19.0 5 9 0
2020 35.5 32.5 9 14 0
2019 13.9 5.5 10 0 0
2018 13.8 7.7 7 2 0
2017 9.6 4.8 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · S. Pasadena

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 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 0713 Maple Grove 25.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR FRE 145 24.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0056 Encino 25.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 414 24.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE farm management inc 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kendall Farms LP 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maple Dairy L.P 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Veg-Land, Inc. 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate 246 FTE
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0713 Maple Grove 25.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Barnert Subacute Rehabilitation Center 25.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Androscoggin Learning and Transition Center 25.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Allina Health Emergency Medical Services Buffalo 24.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0156 Olympia 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE S04193 - WM of Utah West Jordan 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lake Charles 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Austin Public Schools ISD#492-Ellis Middle School 104 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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