Grocery Store · California

Trader Joe's 0024 LaMesa

Lamesa, CA · ~143 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
21.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0024 LaMesa runs at 627% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0024 LaMesa: 21.3 TCR = 627% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0024 LaMesa safety composite

Trader Joe's 0024 LaMesa 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 21.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

−5.3

2017→2024

Trader Joe's 0024 LaMesa injury rate improved

Trader Joe's 0024 LaMesa's TCR fell 5.3 from 23.5 in 2017 to 18.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 41.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=23.5 · 2018=13.7 · 2019=19.6 · 2021=41.1 · 2022=16.5 · 2023=16.6 · 2024=18.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 21.3 · 627% of ind

  • DART 9.1 DART
  • RANK #4591/4686
  • PHOTO McKinney #122
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 101 inj
  • SIZE ~143 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: McKinney #122 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0024 LaMesa in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0024 LaMesa averages 21.3 TCR (627% 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 0024 LaMesa TCR series: 2017=23.5 · 2018=13.7 · 2019=19.6 · 2021=41.1 · 2022=16.5 · 2023=16.6 · 2024=18.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0024 LaMesa 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 #4591 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Trader Joe's 0024 LaMesa (143 employees, TCR 21.3) 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 0024 LaMesa
Trader Joe's 0024 LaMesa (143 employees, TCR 21.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0024 LaMesa 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 18.2 9.1 20 0 0
2023 16.6 10.1 13 5 0
2022 16.5 12.4 8 8 0
2021 41.1 35.7 14 24 0
2019 19.6 10.4 16 1 0
2018 13.7 8.0 11 1 0
2017 23.5 15.3 19 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Lamesa

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 McKinney #122 21.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0730 Atlanta 21.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR BAT 06 21.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brentwood #052 21.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE John Kautz Farms 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE Deseret Farms of California 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southland Sod Farms Operations, Inc. 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Woodland WDL1 143 FTE
NAT-TCR Beach House Wiregrass 21.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Smith Crossing 21.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Newell Pig II 21.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Newport Farms, LLC. 21.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0611 Hoboken 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilton Alexandria Mark Center 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Redner's Warehouse Market Bel Air 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Janesville 143 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.