Grocery Store · California

Trader Joe's 0105 Escondido

Escondido, CA · ~103 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
19.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0105 Escondido runs at 574% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0105 Escondido: 19.5 TCR = 574% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0105 Escondido safety composite

Trader Joe's 0105 Escondido 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 19.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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 0105 Escondido: 14.5 → 19.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 33.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.46× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0105 Escondido's TCR rose 4.6 from 14.5 in 2017 to 19.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 33.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 19.5 · 574% of ind

  • DART 9.0 DART
  • RANK #4535/4686
  • PHOTO Chico Natural Foods …
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 89 inj
  • SIZE ~103 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chico Natural Foods Cooperative Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0105 Escondido in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0105 Escondido averages 19.5 TCR (574% 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 0105 Escondido TCR series: 2017=14.5 · 2018=18.6 · 2019=10.1 · 2020=26.9 · 2021=13.3 · 2022=33.6 · 2023=20 · 2024=19.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0105 Escondido 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 #4535 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Trader Joe's 0105 Escondido (103 employees, TCR 19.5) 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 0105 Escondido
Trader Joe's 0105 Escondido (103 employees, TCR 19.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0105 Escondido 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 19.1 9.0 16 1 0
2023 20.0 8.7 14 2 0
2022 33.6 23.8 14 10 0
2021 13.3 8.9 7 2 0
2020 26.9 23.9 11 7 0
2019 10.1 4.3 7 0 0
2018 18.6 10.8 11 1 0
2017 14.5 11.3 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Escondido

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 244 employers in Escondido, 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 Chico Natural Foods Cooperative Inc 19.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5472-NAI-0034-0034-03611 19.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR LMMM San Antonio#3, LTD 19.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CTV 85 19.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE T&A Onions - Huron - Harvest 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Macdoel Fields 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alexandra Dates Inc 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE DiMare Company 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA Escondido 4,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palomar Medical Center Escondido 3,031 FTE
CITY-NEAR Escondido CA 1,546 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bergelectric Corp. CA 1,279 FTE
NAT-TCR Muskego-Norway School District 19.5 TCR
NAT-TCR North Central Fabricators LLC 19.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Atl-Ground Ops 19.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Buckley Heating 19.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE C009 Pikeville 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Laerdal Medical Corporation 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE S04290 - Camp Hill 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rouses Market #62 103 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.