Grocery Store · California

Trader Joe's 0067 San Mateo

San Mateo, CA · ~113 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0067 San Mateo runs at 555% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0067 San Mateo: 18.9 TCR = 555% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0067 San Mateo safety composite

Trader Joe's 0067 San Mateo scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 22.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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 0067 San Mateo: 15.5 → 33.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 34.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.19× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0067 San Mateo's TCR rose 17.5 from 15.5 in 2017 to 33.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 34.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · San Mateo, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 18.9 · 555% of ind

  • DART 22.4 DART
  • RANK #4505/4686
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0032 Pa…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 72 inj
  • SIZE ~113 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0032 Pasadena (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0067 San Mateo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0067 San Mateo averages 18.9 TCR (555% 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 0067 San Mateo TCR series: 2017=15.5 · 2018=11.6 · 2019=15.9 · 2020=7.3 · 2021=19.2 · 2022=34.2 · 2023=14.3 · 2024=33 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0067 San Mateo falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 2% 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 #4505 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Trader Joe's 0067 San Mateo (113 employees, TCR 18.9) 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 0067 San Mateo
Trader Joe's 0067 San Mateo (113 employees, TCR 18.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0067 San Mateo 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 33.0 22.4 15 13 0
2023 14.3 7.1 6 6 0
2022 34.2 24.4 10 11 0
2021 19.2 14.8 9 4 0
2020 7.3 5.8 4 1 0
2019 15.9 7.2 11 0 0
2018 11.6 9.9 7 0 0
2017 15.5 6.2 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · San Mateo

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 94 employers in San Mateo, 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 0032 Pasadena 18.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6400-SWY-0005-0005-02555 18.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0167 Albuquerque 18.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0674 Royal Oak 18.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE OSR Enterprises, Inc. 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE 33150 Pond Rd, Delano CA 93215 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spring Harvest Berry Farms 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE MARTIN LOERA MEDINA 113 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 132 2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR SIE - San Mateo 1,552 FTE
CITY-NEAR IXL Learning Inc. 888 FTE
CITY-NEAR IXL Learning Inc. - San Mateo 491 FTE
NAT-TCR Wheeler Tank Manufacturing, Inc. 18.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Anishinabe Academy 18.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Usesi Cdcct 18.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 9O US Foods Loveland 18.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE PBV-Goddard Parkway 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE S04520 - WM of Austin 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE S04036 - Atlanta South Hauling 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Newark Manor Nursing Home 113 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.