Grocery Store · California

Trader Joe's 0057 Rcho Palos Verdes

Rcho Palos Verdes, CA · ~74 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0057 Rcho Palos Verdes runs at 476% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0057 Rcho Palos Verdes: 16.2 TCR = 476% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0057 Rcho Palos Verdes safety composite

Trader Joe's 0057 Rcho Palos Verdes scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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 0057 Rcho Palos Verdes: 12.5 → 21.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 25.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.91× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0057 Rcho Palos Verdes's TCR rose 8.8 from 12.5 in 2017 to 21.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 25.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Rcho Palos Verdes, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.2 · 476% of ind

  • DART 14.8 DART
  • RANK #4332/4686
  • PHOTO Store 1436
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 37 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store 1436 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0057 Rcho Palos Verdes in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0057 Rcho Palos Verdes averages 16.2 TCR (476% 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 0057 Rcho Palos Verdes TCR series: 2017=12.5 · 2018=7.3 · 2019=10.8 · 2022=25.2 · 2023=19.9 · 2024=21.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0057 Rcho Palos Verdes falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 3% 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 #4332 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Trader Joe's 0057 Rcho Palos Verdes (74 employees, TCR 16.2) 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 0057 Rcho Palos Verdes
Trader Joe's 0057 Rcho Palos Verdes (74 employees, TCR 16.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0057 Rcho Palos Verdes 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 21.3 14.8 13 0 0
2023 19.9 12.7 6 5 0
2022 25.2 19.4 6 7 0
2019 10.8 4.3 5 0 0
2018 7.3 0.0 2 1 0
2017 12.5 12.5 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Rcho Palos Verdes

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 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 Store 1436 16.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5472-NAI-0032-0032-00659 16.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6962-SWY-0025-0025-01289 16.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR OFA 09 16.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wonderful Orchards-New Columbia 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Apricot Lane Farms 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central California Almond Growers (Kerman) 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jose Jesus Garcia Jr 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trader Joe's 0233 Rcho Palos Verdes 67 FTE
NAT-TCR Friendship Village 16.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Am Snf LLC 16.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital (GSRN) 16.2 TCR
NAT-TCR CVP - TVRH Durham 16.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fishkill 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC dba Valero Hartley Plant 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Triton Primary School 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Guardian Health Care Center 74 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, 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.