Grocery Store · California

Trader Joe's 0049 Sherman Oaks

Sherman Oaks, CA · ~125 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
21.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0049 Sherman Oaks runs at 640% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0049 Sherman Oaks: 21.8 TCR = 640% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0049 Sherman Oaks safety composite

Trader Joe's 0049 Sherman Oaks scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 12% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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

5/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 21.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 0% 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

−4.1

2017→2024

Trader Joe's 0049 Sherman Oaks injury rate improved

Trader Joe's 0049 Sherman Oaks's TCR fell 4.1 from 14.6 in 2017 to 10.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 37.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=14.6 · 2018=15.6 · 2019=12.7 · 2020=36.2 · 2021=37.8 · 2022=26.1 · 2023=20.6 · 2024=10.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Sherman Oaks, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 21.8 · 640% of ind

  • DART 8.6 DART
  • RANK #4601/4686
  • PHOTO 101
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 125 inj
  • SIZE ~125 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 101 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0049 Sherman Oaks in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0049 Sherman Oaks averages 21.8 TCR (640% 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 0049 Sherman Oaks TCR series: 2017=14.6 · 2018=15.6 · 2019=12.7 · 2020=36.2 · 2021=37.8 · 2022=26.1 · 2023=20.6 · 2024=10.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0049 Sherman Oaks 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 #4601 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Trader Joe's 0049 Sherman Oaks (125 employees, TCR 21.8) 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 0049 Sherman Oaks
Trader Joe's 0049 Sherman Oaks (125 employees, TCR 21.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0049 Sherman Oaks 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 10.5 8.6 10 1 0
2023 20.6 14.1 16 3 0
2022 26.1 23.7 12 9 0
2021 37.8 26.8 21 10 1
2020 36.2 32.0 22 12 0
2019 12.7 1.8 14 0 0
2018 15.6 4.9 16 0 0
2017 14.6 8.3 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Sherman Oaks

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 47 employers in Sherman Oaks, 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 101 21.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 20500002-782 STORE 782 - PETALUMA 21.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Missoula #165 21.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0209 Woodland Hills 21.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Maywood Farms 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bowland Vineyard Management, Inc. 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ventura Pacific 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heritage Farms LLC 125 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sherman Oaks Fashion Square 501 500 FTE
CITY-NEAR IMT Residential 464 FTE
CITY-NEAR 71501 290 FTE
CITY-NEAR 72029 243 FTE
NAT-TCR Flexsteel Industries Inc.,-Edgerton 21.8 TCR
NAT-TCR North Alabama Specialty Hospital 21.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Whaley Foodservice-Raleigh 21.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Animal Humane Society - CR 21.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0147 Seattle 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Monterey Mills 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hobey's Inc 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Isd #32 125 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.