Grocery Store · California

Trader Joe's 0053 Glendale

Glendale, CA · ~111 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
22.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Trader Joe's 0053 Glendale runs at 674% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

F
Failing Safety Record
22.9
avg TCR · per 100 workers
3.4
industry benchmark (BLS)
108
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Trader Joe's 0053 Glendale's OSHA Total Case Rate of 22.9 to the Grocery Store BLS benchmark of 3.4 (674% of benchmark) across 8 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

Trader Joe's 0053 Glendale's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.4 industry benchmark.

010203040 20172018201920202021202220232024 30.43.4 Industry benchmarkTrader Joe's 0053 Glendale TCR
Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 445110.

Where Trader Joe's 0053 Glendale falls in its industry

31,897 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4779 safest of 4843 Grocery Store employers in California.

Trend analysis for Trader Joe's 0053 Glendale

Between 2017 and 2024, Trader Joe's 0053 Glendale's Total Case Rate worsened from 20.4 to 30.4 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 49% increase across 7 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2018, at a TCR of 13.8, while 2024 saw the highest rate, at 30.4, a spread of 16.6 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 8 reporting years, Trader Joe's 0053 Glendale recorded 108 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 8-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 108 injuries, 35 illnesses shown on this page for Trader Joe's 0053 Glendale are sourced from its own 8 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 445110 - Grocery Store.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

19 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 177,581 hours worked = 21.40 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Trader Joe's 0053 Glendale (this establishment) 22.90 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 8-year avg
Grocery stores industry avg 3.40 BLS IIF, NAICS 445110
California state avg (all industries) 5.64 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Trader Joe's 0053 Glendale to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 30.4 21.4 27 0 0
2023 16.6 14.2 12 2 0
2022 26.8 21.7 12 9 0
2021 26.8 21.1 10 9 0
2020 25.7 21.7 5 14 0
2019 22.7 7.6 18 0 0
2018 13.8 11.1 10 0 0
2017 20.4 12.2 14 1 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Trader Joe's 0053 Glendale's reported OSHA injury record versus its Grocery Store peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

  • At 674% of the Grocery Store benchmark, Trader Joe's 0053 Glendale reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Grocery Store sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Trader Joe's 0053 Glendale's safety grade?
Trader Joe's 0053 Glendale has a safety grade of F (Failing Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 22.9 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 3.4 for Grocery Store.
How many injuries has Trader Joe's 0053 Glendale reported?
Trader Joe's 0053 Glendale has reported 108 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 8 years of OSHA data (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.