Grocery Store · California

Trader Joe's 0052 Montrose

Montrose, CA · ~104 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
20.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0052 Montrose runs at 608% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0052 Montrose: 20.7 TCR = 608% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0052 Montrose safety composite

Trader Joe's 0052 Montrose 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 20.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

−20.4

2017→2024

Trader Joe's 0052 Montrose injury rate improved

Trader Joe's 0052 Montrose's TCR fell 20.4 from 27.8 in 2017 to 7.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 37.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=27.8 · 2018=12.4 · 2019=16.3 · 2020=28.5 · 2021=37.4 · 2022=24.2 · 2023=11.3 · 2024=7.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Montrose, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 20.7 · 608% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #4574/4686
  • PHOTO 6400-SWY 0024 0077
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 83 inj
  • SIZE ~104 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 6400-SWY 0024 0077 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0052 Montrose in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0052 Montrose averages 20.7 TCR (608% 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 0052 Montrose TCR series: 2017=27.8 · 2018=12.4 · 2019=16.3 · 2020=28.5 · 2021=37.4 · 2022=24.2 · 2023=11.3 · 2024=7.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0052 Montrose 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 #4574 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Trader Joe's 0052 Montrose (104 employees, TCR 20.7) 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 0052 Montrose
Trader Joe's 0052 Montrose (104 employees, TCR 20.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0052 Montrose 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 7.5 3.7 6 0 0
2023 11.3 7.5 7 2 0
2022 24.2 21.5 6 12 0
2021 37.4 29.9 15 10 0
2020 28.5 25.8 11 10 0
2019 16.3 6.8 11 1 0
2018 12.4 4.6 8 0 0
2017 27.8 19.1 19 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Montrose

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 10 employers in Montrose, 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 0024 0077 20.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0602 Westwood 20.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3023 Mtj89 20.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR KING KULLEN #59 20.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE farm management inc 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kendall Farms LP 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maple Dairy L.P 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Veg-Land, Inc. 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR Verdugo Valley Skld Nsg & Wlns Centre 140 FTE
CITY-NEAR Component West Inc 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR Montrose Healthcare Center 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mountview, Elmcroft of 80 FTE
NAT-TCR Maine Veterans' Homes - Scarborough 20.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Spokane Veterans Home 20.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Florentine Gardens 20.7 TCR
NAT-TCR FLL - Ground Ops 20.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0156 Olympia 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE S04193 - WM of Utah West Jordan 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lake Charles 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Austin Public Schools ISD#492-Ellis Middle School 104 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.