Grocery Store · California

Trader Joe's 0071 Fair Oaks

Fair Oaks, CA · ~93 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0071 Fair Oaks runs at 439% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0071 Fair Oaks: 14.9 TCR = 439% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0071 Fair Oaks safety composite

Trader Joe's 0071 Fair Oaks scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.59 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 0071 Fair Oaks: 11.0 → 14.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 20.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.91× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0071 Fair Oaks's TCR rose 3.9 from 11.0 in 2017 to 14.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 20.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Fair Oaks, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.9 · 439% of ind

  • DART 13.6 DART
  • RANK #4236/4686
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0688 Ch…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 57 inj
  • SIZE ~93 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0688 Chicago (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0071 Fair Oaks in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0071 Fair Oaks averages 14.9 TCR (439% 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 0071 Fair Oaks TCR series: 2017=11 · 2018=12 · 2019=6.5 · 2020=18.4 · 2021=18.2 · 2022=18.1 · 2023=20.2 · 2024=14.9 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0071 Fair Oaks falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 4% 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 #4236 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Trader Joe's 0071 Fair Oaks (93 employees, TCR 14.9) 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 0071 Fair Oaks
Trader Joe's 0071 Fair Oaks (93 employees, TCR 14.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0071 Fair Oaks 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 14.9 13.6 11 0 0
2023 20.2 18.7 12 2 0
2022 18.1 14.8 5 6 0
2021 18.2 16.6 5 6 0
2020 18.4 15.1 8 3 0
2019 6.5 3.3 3 1 0
2018 12.0 8.6 7 0 0
2017 11.0 9.2 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Fair Oaks

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 18 employers in Fair 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 Trader Joe's 0688 Chicago 14.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Global Specialty Fulfillment : BFI6 14.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4054-ABS 0016 3204 14.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0014 Bakersfield 14.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mt. View Farming, Inc. 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE PAC-MAN 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE E A & T 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mountain Meadow Mushroom Farms, Inc. 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR ECCFO 146 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6962-SWY-0025-0025-01895 133 FTE
CITY-NEAR SWY-0025-0025-01895 FAC-01895-FAIR OAKS-CA 125 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6962-SWY-0025-0025-01846 113 FTE
NAT-TCR Isabelles Kitchen Inc 14.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Public Works 14.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0688 Chicago 14.9 TCR
NAT-TCR COS001 14.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0136 Vancouver 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0351 Cottonwood Heights 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Albany-Public Works Operations/WRF 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stillwater Billings Clinic 93 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.