Grocery Store · Arizona

Trader Joe's 0092 Surprise

Surprise, AZ · ~56 workers · 9 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 0092 Surprise runs at 415% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0092 Surprise: 14.1 TCR = 415% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0092 Surprise safety composite

Trader Joe's 0092 Surprise 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

−6.5

2016→2024

Trader Joe's 0092 Surprise injury rate improved

Trader Joe's 0092 Surprise's TCR fell 6.5 from 18.1 in 2016 to 11.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 27.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=18.1 · 2017=17.9 · 2018=9.6 · 2019=7.9 · 2020=7.6 · 2021=27.0 · 2022=21.8 · 2023=5.5 · 2024=11.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 14.1 · 415% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #802/822
  • PHOTO Oliver Lemon's - Sis…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Oliver Lemon's - Sisters (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0092 Surprise in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0092 Surprise averages 14.1 TCR (415% 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 0092 Surprise TCR series: 2016=18.1 · 2017=17.9 · 2018=9.6 · 2019=7.9 · 2020=7.6 · 2021=27 · 2022=21.8 · 2023=5.5 · 2024=11.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0092 Surprise 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 Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #802 safest of 822 Grocery Store employers in Arizona.

Trader Joe's 0092 Surprise (56 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 0092 Surprise
Trader Joe's 0092 Surprise (56 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 0092 Surprise 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 11.6 5.0 7 0 0
2023 5.5 3.7 3 0 0
2022 21.8 19.6 2 8 0
2021 27.0 19.7 5 6 0
2020 7.6 5.0 3 0 0
2019 7.9 2.6 3 0 0
2018 9.6 6.4 3 0 0
2017 17.9 14.3 5 0 0
2016 18.1 7.2 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · AZ · Surprise

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 130 employers in Surprise, 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 Oliver Lemon's - Sisters 14.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR SWY-0025-0025-00950 FAC-00950-GUERNEVILLE-CA 14.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5472-NAI-0032-0032-03481 14.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 267 14.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Casa Grande Office 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pacific Bath Phoenix 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Premier Building Group Collective 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rowley Plastering LC 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-508 913 FTE
CITY-NEAR MMR Constructors, Inc- Mission Critical 657 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2777 432 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Surprise (Parks and Rec) 410 FTE
NAT-TCR CAL029 14.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Carps, LLC 14.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Douglas Dynamics, aka MDX 14.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Williams 6 Logistics 14.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ingram Readymix, Inc.-Converse #12 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE American & Efird Filament Plant 05 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rigidized Metals Corp. 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bluegrass Contracting Corporation 56 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.