Grocery Store · California

Trader Joe's 0027 Rcho Santa Margarita

Rcho Santa Margarita, CA · ~93 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
21.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0027 Rcho Santa Margarita runs at 624% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0027 Rcho Santa Margarita: 21.2 TCR = 624% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0027 Rcho Santa Margarita safety composite

Trader Joe's 0027 Rcho Santa Margarita 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 21.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

−9.4

2018→2024

Trader Joe's 0027 Rcho Santa Margarita injury rate improved

Trader Joe's 0027 Rcho Santa Margarita's TCR fell 9.4 from 22.3 in 2018 to 12.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 26.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=22.3 · 2019=26.1 · 2022=21.6 · 2023=23.2 · 2024=12.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Rcho Santa Margarita, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 21.2 · 624% of ind

  • DART 8.6 DART
  • RANK #4589/4686
  • PHOTO Sacramento-Elk Grove…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 60 inj
  • SIZE ~93 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sacramento-Elk Grove #037 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0027 Rcho Santa Margarita in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0027 Rcho Santa Margarita averages 21.2 TCR (624% 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 0027 Rcho Santa Margarita TCR series: 2018=22.3 · 2019=26.1 · 2022=21.6 · 2023=23.2 · 2024=12.9 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0027 Rcho Santa Margarita 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 #4589 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Trader Joe's 0027 Rcho Santa Margarita (93 employees, TCR 21.2) 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Trader Joe's 0027 Rcho Santa Margarita
Trader Joe's 0027 Rcho Santa Margarita (93 employees, TCR 21.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0027 Rcho Santa Margarita 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 12.9 8.6 9 0 0
2023 23.2 11.6 13 3 0
2022 21.6 12.4 11 3 0
2019 26.1 3.5 14 1 0
2018 22.3 15.5 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Rcho Santa Margarita

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 Sacramento-Elk Grove #037 21.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Moses Lake #141 21.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vacaville #060 21.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR FRE 34 21.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mt. View Farming, Inc. 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE PAC-MAN 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE E A & T 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mountain Meadow Mushroom Farms, Inc. 93 FTE
NAT-TCR Popular Design Mill & Cabinet, Inc 21.2 TCR
NAT-TCR NOLA Logistics LLC 21.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Tapestry Senior Living Springboro 21.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Dominion Richmond, LLC 21.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Milwaukee 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Walla Walla University 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE OC 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central Service Center - Boise 93 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, 2019, 2018. 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.