Grocery Store · California

Trader Joe's 0020 LaJolla

Lajolla, CA · ~108 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
19.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0020 LaJolla runs at 568% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0020 LaJolla: 19.3 TCR = 568% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0020 LaJolla safety composite

Trader Joe's 0020 LaJolla 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).

F

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 19.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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 0020 LaJolla: 10.2 → 10.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 47.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.33× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0020 LaJolla's TCR rose 0.4 from 10.2 in 2017 to 10.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 47.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Lajolla, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 19.3 · 568% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK #4529/4686
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0708 Ka…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 63 inj
  • SIZE ~108 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0708 Kalamazoo (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0020 LaJolla in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0020 LaJolla averages 19.3 TCR (568% 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 0020 LaJolla TCR series: 2017=10.2 · 2018=7.9 · 2019=10.2 · 2021=47.9 · 2022=30.3 · 2023=18.1 · 2024=10.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0020 LaJolla falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 1% 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 #4529 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Trader Joe's 0020 LaJolla (108 employees, TCR 19.3) 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 0020 LaJolla
Trader Joe's 0020 LaJolla (108 employees, TCR 19.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0020 LaJolla 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 10.6 6.3 10 0 0
2023 18.1 13.6 10 6 0
2022 30.3 25.3 10 14 0
2021 47.9 40.6 15 18 0
2019 10.2 7.3 7 0 0
2018 7.9 3.1 4 1 0
2017 10.2 4.4 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Lajolla

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 0708 Kalamazoo 19.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1029 19.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aalo Foods 19.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR WM 5602 19.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jazmine Ag Labor Services, Inc 108 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harris Farms Inc 108 FTE
STATE-SIZE Superior Cattle Feeders, LLC 108 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rainbow Farms 108 FTE
CITY-NEAR 10066 La Jolla 228 FTE
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0708 Kalamazoo 19.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Wakefield Care and Rehab. 19.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1029 19.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Nourse Farms, Inc. - Wa 19.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE C506 Conway 108 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wilson Lumber Company, Inc Huntsville 108 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wilson Lumber Company, Inc. Madison Truss 108 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cullman Electric Cooperative 108 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, 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.