Grocery Store · California

Trader Joe's 0111 Irvine

Irvine, CA · ~92 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0111 Irvine runs at 277% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0111 Irvine: 9.4 TCR = 277% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0111 Irvine safety composite

Trader Joe's 0111 Irvine scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

−4.8

2017→2024

Trader Joe's 0111 Irvine injury rate improved

Trader Joe's 0111 Irvine's TCR fell 4.8 from 12.1 in 2017 to 7.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 17.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=12.1 · 2018=5.1 · 2019=9.4 · 2020=9.6 · 2021=17.7 · 2022=9.7 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=7.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Irvine, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.4 · 277% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #3279/4686
  • PHOTO SWY-0025-0025-00967 …
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~92 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SWY-0025-0025-00967 FAC-00967-ORINDA-CA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0111 Irvine in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0111 Irvine averages 9.4 TCR (277% 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 0111 Irvine TCR series: 2017=12.1 · 2018=5.1 · 2019=9.4 · 2020=9.6 · 2021=17.7 · 2022=9.7 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=7.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0111 Irvine falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 14% 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 #3279 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Trader Joe's 0111 Irvine (92 employees, TCR 9.4) 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 0111 Irvine
Trader Joe's 0111 Irvine (92 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0111 Irvine 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 7.3 5.8 5 0 0
2023 4.6 3.1 3 0 0
2022 9.7 8.1 2 4 0
2021 17.7 9.6 9 2 0
2020 9.6 6.4 4 2 0
2019 9.4 3.1 6 0 0
2018 5.1 1.7 3 0 0
2017 12.1 5.2 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Irvine

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 622 employers in Irvine, 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 SWY-0025-0025-00967 FAC-00967-ORINDA-CA 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR USM Store #923 (ALBERTSONS MARKET) 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SUPER STOP & SHOP 100543 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR STOP & SHOP 100628 9.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nunez Ag, Inc. 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heritage Vineyard Management, Inc. 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Terra Bella Nursery 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glass House Group Inc. 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Irvine 16,029 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-10 4,926 FTE
CITY-NEAR Edwards Lifesciences 4,189 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johnson and Johnson MDD CSS Irvine 3,775 FTE
NAT-TCR Pacific Cheese Co., Inc. - Reno, NV 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR CL Healthcare 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Comfort First Heating & Cooling LLC., Sanford 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hay Creek Pallet Inc 9.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0129 Lynnwood 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0715 Woodbury 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Apple Rock GSO 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE MTS Indianapolis 92 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.