Grocery Store · California

Trader Joe's 0032 Pasadena

Pasadena, CA · ~92 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0032 Pasadena runs at 554% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0032 Pasadena: 18.9 TCR = 554% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0032 Pasadena safety composite

Trader Joe's 0032 Pasadena scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.77 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%).

Rising injury rate

Trader Joe's 0032 Pasadena: 8.6 → 13.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 28.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.47× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0032 Pasadena's TCR rose 5.2 from 8.6 in 2017 to 13.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 28.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 18.9 · 554% of ind

  • DART 8.8 DART
  • RANK #4504/4686
  • PHOTO 6400-SWY-0005-0005-0…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 71 inj
  • SIZE ~92 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 6400-SWY-0005-0005-02555 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0032 Pasadena in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0032 Pasadena averages 18.9 TCR (554% 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 0032 Pasadena TCR series: 2017=8.6 · 2018=20.2 · 2019=5 · 2020=28.4 · 2021=26.3 · 2022=26.7 · 2023=21.8 · 2024=13.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0032 Pasadena falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 2% 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 #4504 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Trader Joe's 0032 Pasadena (92 employees, TCR 18.9) 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 0032 Pasadena
Trader Joe's 0032 Pasadena (92 employees, TCR 18.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0032 Pasadena 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 13.8 8.8 11 0 0
2023 21.8 15.0 12 4 0
2022 26.7 25.2 8 10 0
2021 26.3 17.0 9 8 0
2020 28.4 18.9 12 6 0
2019 5.0 0.0 2 1 0
2018 20.2 11.8 12 0 0
2017 8.6 8.6 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Pasadena

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 195 employers in Pasadena, 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 6400-SWY-0005-0005-02555 18.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0067 San Mateo 18.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0006 Santa Monica 18.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ontario #147 18.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nunez Ag, Inc. 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heritage Vineyard Management, Inc. 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Terra Bella Nursery 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glass House Group Inc. 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR ACCO Engineered Systems 4,604 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2313-00000001 4,175 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Pasadena 2,397 FTE
CITY-NEAR Huntington Hospital 2,228 FTE
NAT-TCR SEA Logistics LLC 18.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Meloon Foundries, LLC 18.9 TCR
NAT-TCR La Amistad Foundation, Inc. 18.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 1002 Batesville Retail 18.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0129 Lynnwood 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0715 Woodbury 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Apple Rock GSO 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE MTS Indianapolis 92 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.