Grocery Store · California

Trader Joe's 0110 Goleta

Goleta, CA · ~138 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0110 Goleta runs at 383% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0110 Goleta: 13.0 TCR = 383% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0110 Goleta safety composite

Trader Joe's 0110 Goleta scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

−1.9

2017→2024

Trader Joe's 0110 Goleta injury rate improved

Trader Joe's 0110 Goleta's TCR fell 1.9 from 10.4 in 2017 to 8.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 56.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=10.4 · 2018=11.3 · 2019=6.0 · 2020=17.0 · 2021=22.1 · 2022=56.9 · 2023=16.0 · 2024=8.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 13.0 · 383% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK #4026/4686
  • PHOTO 6962-SWY-0025-0025-0…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 76 inj
  • SIZE ~138 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 6962-SWY-0025-0025-03095 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0110 Goleta in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0110 Goleta averages 13.0 TCR (383% 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 0110 Goleta TCR series: 2017=10.4 · 2018=11.3 · 2019=6 · 2020=17 · 2021=22.1 · 2022=56.9 · 2023=16 · 2024=8.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0110 Goleta falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 6% 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 #4026 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Trader Joe's 0110 Goleta (138 employees, TCR 13.0) 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 0110 Goleta
Trader Joe's 0110 Goleta (138 employees, TCR 13.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0110 Goleta 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 8.5 6.3 8 0 0
2023 16.0 9.6 13 2 0
2022 56.9 47.4 16 32 0
2021 22.1 13.5 11 7 0
2020 17.0 13.1 6 7 0
2019 6.0 3.6 5 0 0
2018 11.3 6.3 9 0 0
2017 10.4 7.8 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Goleta

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 98 employers in Goleta, 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 6962-SWY-0025-0025-03095 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harding's North Muskegon 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR BAT 35 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR WEB 26 13.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Westerlay Orchids LP 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Danell Custom Harvesting LLC - DCH629 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sustainable Labor Solutions, Inc 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE RLH Fire Protection 138 FTE
CITY-NEAR Raytheon_Goleta_CA_RVS 843 FTE
CITY-NEAR Teledyne FLIR, Goleta 555 FTE
CITY-NEAR Raytheon_Goleta_CA_EW 437 FTE
CITY-NEAR Apeel Technology, Inc. 375 FTE
NAT-TCR TownePlace Suites Alexandria 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Linkletter & Sons Inc. 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Elkhart Plastics 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Dakota Specialty Milling 13.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Corp 701 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE S07437 - Waste Management Charlotte County 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Lino Lakes 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Electric Controls 138 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.