Grocery Store · California

Trader Joe's 0115 Lafayette

Lafayette, CA · ~102 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
21.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0115 Lafayette runs at 631% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0115 Lafayette: 21.5 TCR = 631% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0115 Lafayette safety composite

Trader Joe's 0115 Lafayette 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 21.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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 0115 Lafayette: 6.5 → 13.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 40.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.49× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0115 Lafayette's TCR rose 6.7 from 6.5 in 2017 to 13.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 40.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 21.5 · 631% of ind

  • DART 10.6 DART
  • RANK #4594/4686
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0234 Lo…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 88 inj
  • SIZE ~102 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0234 Los Angeles (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0115 Lafayette in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0115 Lafayette averages 21.5 TCR (631% 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 0115 Lafayette TCR series: 2017=6.5 · 2018=10.7 · 2019=16.5 · 2020=30.7 · 2021=18 · 2022=35.6 · 2023=40.5 · 2024=13.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0115 Lafayette 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 #4594 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Trader Joe's 0115 Lafayette (102 employees, TCR 21.5) 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 0115 Lafayette
Trader Joe's 0115 Lafayette (102 employees, TCR 21.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0115 Lafayette 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 13.2 10.6 10 0 0
2023 40.5 27.0 21 12 0
2022 35.6 30.1 13 13 0
2021 18.0 11.1 9 4 0
2020 30.7 18.7 14 9 0
2019 16.5 4.5 10 1 0
2018 10.7 6.1 7 0 0
2017 6.5 3.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Lafayette

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 19 employers in Lafayette, 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 0234 Los Angeles 21.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0201 Brentwood 21.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SWN 74 21.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR FRE 47 21.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE REFCO FARMS LLC 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Pinery LLC 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE Del Rey Packing Co 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE ONM 102 FTE
CITY-NEAR 10349 Lafayette 171 FTE
CITY-NEAR SWY-0025-0025-00783 FAC-00783-LAFAYETTE-CA 135 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6962-SWY 0025 0783 119 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6962-SWY-0025-0025-00783 115 FTE
NAT-TCR 3392 Transmetco 21.5 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Lacey / Joint Animal Services 21.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Handlos South 21.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Dunkirk Rehabilitation and Nursing 21.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gulf States Plumbing & Mechanical, Inc. 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE S05449 - WM of Denver - Franklin Street MRF 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE S05218 - WM of Oregon Washington County 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Superior Clinic 102 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.