Grocery Store · California

Trader Joe's 0029 Torrance

Torrance, CA · ~95 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
26.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0029 Torrance runs at 775% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0029 Torrance: 26.3 TCR = 775% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0029 Torrance safety composite

Trader Joe's 0029 Torrance 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 26.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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 0029 Torrance: 12.0 → 26.2 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 44.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.66× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0029 Torrance's TCR rose 14.3 from 12.0 in 2017 to 26.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 44.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Torrance, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 26.3 · 775% of ind

  • DART 17.5 DART
  • RANK #4672/4686
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0078 Sa…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 94 inj
  • SIZE ~95 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0078 San Francisco (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0029 Torrance in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0029 Torrance averages 26.3 TCR (775% 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 0029 Torrance TCR series: 2017=12 · 2018=25 · 2019=8.7 · 2020=39 · 2021=44.7 · 2022=38 · 2023=17.1 · 2024=26.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0029 Torrance 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 #4672 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Trader Joe's 0029 Torrance (95 employees, TCR 26.3) 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Trader Joe's 0029 Torrance
Trader Joe's 0029 Torrance (95 employees, TCR 26.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0029 Torrance 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 26.2 17.5 19 2 0
2023 17.1 11.4 11 1 0
2022 38.0 28.1 16 7 0
2021 44.7 30.4 19 6 0
2020 39.0 31.6 7 14 0
2019 8.7 5.2 5 0 0
2018 25.0 17.8 10 4 0
2017 12.0 5.1 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Torrance

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 332 employers in Torrance, 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 0078 San Francisco 26.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0755 Metairie 26.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SXB 72 26.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0671 Indianapolis 26.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Del Llano Farms 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Los Altos Farms, LLC 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE TreeSource 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Costa View Farms 2 (Madera) 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harbor-UCLA Medical Center 4,144 FTE
CITY-NEAR Torrance Memorial Medical Center 3,808 FTE
CITY-NEAR Los Angeles 3,229 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 494 2,621 FTE
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0755 Metairie 26.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Package Squad 26.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 6458-ZSCR 26.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Northfield Manufacturing, Inc. 26.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Capitol Heights 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE S04283 - Gilbertsville Hauling 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE NAPA Boston 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Railroad Nursery, Inc. 95 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.