Grocery Store · California

Trader Joe's 0079 Pacific Grove

Pacific Grove, CA · ~78 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0079 Pacific Grove runs at 414% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0079 Pacific Grove: 14.1 TCR = 414% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0079 Pacific Grove safety composite

Trader Joe's 0079 Pacific Grove scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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 0079 Pacific Grove: 9.0 → 15.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 20.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.47× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0079 Pacific Grove's TCR rose 6.0 from 9.0 in 2017 to 15.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 20.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Pacific Grove, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.1 · 414% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #4159/4686
  • PHOTO Store 1042
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 40 inj
  • SIZE ~78 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store 1042 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0079 Pacific Grove in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0079 Pacific Grove averages 14.1 TCR (414% 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 0079 Pacific Grove TCR series: 2017=9 · 2018=10.5 · 2019=11.8 · 2020=8.9 · 2021=18.4 · 2022=20 · 2023=19.2 · 2024=15 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0079 Pacific Grove falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 5% 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 #4159 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Trader Joe's 0079 Pacific Grove (78 employees, TCR 14.1) 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 0079 Pacific Grove
Trader Joe's 0079 Pacific Grove (78 employees, TCR 14.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0079 Pacific Grove 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 15.0 6.7 9 0 0
2023 19.2 15.7 7 4 0
2022 20.0 18.1 3 8 0
2021 18.4 16.5 5 5 0
2020 8.9 5.3 5 0 0
2019 11.8 9.8 3 3 0
2018 10.5 6.3 5 0 0
2017 9.0 9.0 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Pacific Grove

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 18 employers in Pacific Grove, 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 Store 1042 14.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1719 Sxb80 14.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2719 Fre146 14.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Keizer #153 14.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE California Endive Farms 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE VF - Napa 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Russell Harris Farms 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hadley Date Gardens, Inc. 78 FTE
CITY-NEAR Canterbury Woods 140 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gateway Center of Monterey County Inc 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pacific Grove 82 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pebble Beach - RDC 80 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 1042 14.1 TCR
NAT-TCR AWI Coldwater Warehouse 14.1 TCR
NAT-TCR The Home City Ice Company Washington Street 14.1 TCR
NAT-TCR RSCG - Pittston, PA 14.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0158 Silverdale 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cars of Brookfield, Inc 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grace Home Nursing Home 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Larson Acres, Inc. 78 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.