Grocery Store · California

Trader Joe's 0048 Whittier

Whittier, CA · ~89 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
24.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0048 Whittier runs at 719% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0048 Whittier: 24.5 TCR = 719% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0048 Whittier safety composite

Trader Joe's 0048 Whittier 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 24.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.79 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

−11.5

2017→2024

Trader Joe's 0048 Whittier injury rate improved

Trader Joe's 0048 Whittier's TCR fell 11.5 from 30.5 in 2017 to 19.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 34.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=30.5 · 2018=17.3 · 2019=21.8 · 2020=25.3 · 2021=32.1 · 2022=34.5 · 2023=15.2 · 2024=19.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 24.5 · 719% of ind

  • DART 8.8 DART
  • RANK #4651/4686
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0710 St…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 87 inj
  • SIZE ~89 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0710 St. Louis Park (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0048 Whittier in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0048 Whittier averages 24.5 TCR (719% 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 0048 Whittier TCR series: 2017=30.5 · 2018=17.3 · 2019=21.8 · 2020=25.3 · 2021=32.1 · 2022=34.5 · 2023=15.2 · 2024=19 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0048 Whittier 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 #4651 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Trader Joe's 0048 Whittier (89 employees, TCR 24.5) 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 051015202530 Average employees Total Case Rate Trader Joe's 0048 Whittier
Trader Joe's 0048 Whittier (89 employees, TCR 24.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0048 Whittier 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 19.0 8.8 13 0 0
2023 15.2 9.1 9 1 0
2022 34.5 29.6 9 12 0
2021 32.1 16.9 12 7 0
2020 25.3 12.6 8 6 0
2019 21.8 9.1 11 1 0
2018 17.3 3.5 10 0 0
2017 30.5 9.0 15 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Whittier

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 124 employers in Whittier, 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 0710 St. Louis Park 24.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0184 Chatsworth 24.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2063 Swn4 24.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0404 Fort Worth 24.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bud of California Broccoli 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE GMI - CA 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ramona 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Booth Ranches LLC-BR1 89 FTE
CITY-NEAR PIH Health Hospital - Whittier 3,609 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 499 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR PIH Health Hospital - Downey 1,130 FTE
CITY-NEAR PIH Health Physicians 819 FTE
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0710 St. Louis Park 24.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Monroe 1 24.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mesa Vista 24.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Minnesota Metalworks, Inc. 24.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE St. Charles Elementary 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ind Sch Dist 2580 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Era Converting Machinery, Inc. 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE J. Strickland & Co. 89 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.