Grocery Store · California

Trader Joe's 0026 San Diego

San Diego, CA · ~114 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
25.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0026 San Diego runs at 740% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0026 San Diego: 25.2 TCR = 740% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0026 San Diego safety composite

Trader Joe's 0026 San Diego 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 25.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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 0026 San Diego: 14.2 → 16.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 36.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.47× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0026 San Diego's TCR rose 1.9 from 14.2 in 2017 to 16.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 36.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · San Diego, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 25.2 · 740% of ind

  • DART 11.8 DART
  • RANK #4659/4686
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0460 Tu…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 125 inj
  • SIZE ~114 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0460 Tulsa (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0026 San Diego in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0026 San Diego averages 25.2 TCR (740% 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 0026 San Diego TCR series: 2017=14.2 · 2018=14.9 · 2019=25.9 · 2020=30 · 2021=30.7 · 2022=36.2 · 2023=33.4 · 2024=16.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0026 San Diego 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 #4659 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Trader Joe's 0026 San Diego (114 employees, TCR 25.2) 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 0026 San Diego
Trader Joe's 0026 San Diego (114 employees, TCR 25.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0026 San Diego 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 16.1 11.8 15 0 0
2023 33.4 20.1 27 3 0
2022 36.2 28.9 15 15 0
2021 30.7 26.5 11 11 0
2020 30.0 17.1 15 6 0
2019 25.9 9.8 21 0 0
2018 14.9 5.4 11 0 0
2017 14.2 7.1 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · San Diego

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 1,979 employers in San Diego, 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 0460 Tulsa 25.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1209 - NLCM Aptos 25.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bristol Farms - 004 - BF Westchester 25.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR WEB 05 25.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wonderful Orchards-Belridge 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE Olivarez Honey Bees 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE SIERRA AG SERVICES, INC 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE PURO VIDA BERRIES 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC San Diego Health 9,310 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Atomics 8,108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health Human Services Agency 6,080 FTE
CITY-NEAR National University 4,955 FTE
NAT-TCR ankeny cold storage llc 25.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0460 Tulsa 25.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Charles Town Goodwill Retail Store 25.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 4769-6288-OUTLETS 25.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0157 West Seattle 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0714 Minnetonka 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trumbull 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rouses Market #55 114 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.