Grocery Store · Arizona

Trader Joe's 0089 Mesa

Mesa, AZ · ~72 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0089 Mesa runs at 424% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0089 Mesa: 14.4 TCR = 424% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0089 Mesa safety composite

Trader Joe's 0089 Mesa 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.3

2016→2024

Trader Joe's 0089 Mesa injury rate improved

Trader Joe's 0089 Mesa's TCR fell 4.3 from 18.4 in 2016 to 14.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 23.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=18.4 · 2017=14.5 · 2018=9.9 · 2019=13.3 · 2020=23.7 · 2021=6.7 · 2022=18.6 · 2023=10.6 · 2024=14.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Mesa, AZ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.4 · 424% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK #806/822
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0088 Tu…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 51 inj
  • SIZE ~72 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0088 Tucson (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0089 Mesa in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0089 Mesa averages 14.4 TCR (424% 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 0089 Mesa TCR series: 2016=18.4 · 2017=14.5 · 2018=9.9 · 2019=13.3 · 2020=23.7 · 2021=6.7 · 2022=18.6 · 2023=10.6 · 2024=14.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0089 Mesa 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 Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #806 safest of 822 Grocery Store employers in Arizona.

Trader Joe's 0089 Mesa (72 employees, TCR 14.4) 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 0089 Mesa
Trader Joe's 0089 Mesa (72 employees, TCR 14.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0089 Mesa 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 14.1 6.3 9 0 0
2023 10.6 0.0 6 0 0
2022 18.6 12.4 3 6 0
2021 6.7 4.4 1 2 0
2020 23.7 21.5 7 4 0
2019 13.3 8.8 5 1 0
2018 9.9 5.9 5 0 0
2017 14.5 8.3 7 0 0
2016 18.4 8.2 8 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · AZ · Mesa

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 565 employers in Mesa, AZ · 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 0088 Tucson 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR VAL 25 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR PCC Community Markets - Greenlake Aurora 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR HOME DELIVERY STOP & SHOP WINDSOR, CT GJJ 14.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE TLC Custom Farming Company 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE KB Home - Tucson Division Office 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sun Streams 2 Solar 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yuma County Public Works 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR AZ001 4,193 FTE
CITY-NEAR AZAPW9668 AZA - RAMP PAX 3,181 FTE
CITY-NEAR 04-290370278-2 1,964 FTE
CITY-NEAR Police Department H210 1,651 FTE
NAT-TCR NPNE - Dover NH 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Medilodge of Hillman 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR The Neighborhood at Tellico Village 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Lakin Tire West - AZ 14.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Atlanta Distribution Center 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Detroit Distribution Center 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE MLW - Pooler -A 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE NA-US-PA-Norristown-Boulevard of the Generals 72 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, 2016. 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.