Grocery Store · California

Trader Joe's 0104 Cerritos

Cerritos, CA · ~110 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
21.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0104 Cerritos runs at 639% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0104 Cerritos: 21.7 TCR = 639% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0104 Cerritos safety composite

Trader Joe's 0104 Cerritos scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 21.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 23.01 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 0104 Cerritos: 10.8 → 32.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 34.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.06× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0104 Cerritos's TCR rose 21.2 from 10.8 in 2017 to 32.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 34.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Cerritos, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 21.7 · 639% of ind

  • DART 23.0 DART
  • RANK #4599/4686
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0574 Ha…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 82 inj
  • SIZE ~110 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0574 Halfmoon (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0104 Cerritos in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0104 Cerritos averages 21.7 TCR (639% 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 0104 Cerritos TCR series: 2017=10.8 · 2018=7.5 · 2019=19.5 · 2020=27.1 · 2021=34.6 · 2022=32.1 · 2023=10.2 · 2024=32 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0104 Cerritos falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 1% 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 #4599 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Trader Joe's 0104 Cerritos (110 employees, TCR 21.7) 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 0104 Cerritos
Trader Joe's 0104 Cerritos (110 employees, TCR 21.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0104 Cerritos 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 32.0 23.0 16 9 0
2023 10.2 7.6 8 0 0
2022 32.1 26.8 8 16 0
2021 34.6 20.8 14 11 0
2020 27.1 21.4 12 7 0
2019 19.5 7.5 12 1 0
2018 7.5 3.0 5 0 0
2017 10.8 4.6 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Cerritos

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 126 employers in Cerritos, 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 0574 Halfmoon 21.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 20500002-782 STORE 782 - PETALUMA 21.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0049 Sherman Oaks 21.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 101 21.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Queen Victoria Farms, LP 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE River Ridge Farms 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE GH Dairy - California 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Braga Ranch, Inc. Soledad 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 483 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 616 2,127 FTE
CITY-NEAR CACER - CERRITOS HUB 1,981 FTE
CITY-NEAR CERRITOS HUB (CACER) 1,916 FTE
NAT-TCR Greco and Sons of Wisconsin 21.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Park Health 21.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Cheyenne County Hospital 21.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0574 Halfmoon 21.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0138 Issaquah 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chariot Eagle 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE S03024 - Cleveland Hauling 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bericap SC, LLC 110 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.