Grocery Store · California

Trader Joe's 0120 Chula Vista

Chula Vista, CA · ~87 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
19.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0120 Chula Vista runs at 566% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0120 Chula Vista: 19.3 TCR = 566% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0120 Chula Vista safety composite

Trader Joe's 0120 Chula Vista 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 19.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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 0120 Chula Vista: 4.4 → 8.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 53.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.36× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0120 Chula Vista's TCR rose 3.7 from 4.4 in 2017 to 8.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 53.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Chula Vista, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 19.3 · 566% of ind

  • DART 6.9 DART
  • RANK #4525/4686
  • PHOTO HAI 28
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 75 inj
  • SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HAI 28 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0120 Chula Vista in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0120 Chula Vista averages 19.3 TCR (566% 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 0120 Chula Vista TCR series: 2017=4.4 · 2018=13.1 · 2019=21 · 2020=53.2 · 2021=36.6 · 2022=32.3 · 2023=19.2 · 2024=8.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0120 Chula Vista 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 #4525 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Trader Joe's 0120 Chula Vista (87 employees, TCR 19.3) 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 0120 Chula Vista
Trader Joe's 0120 Chula Vista (87 employees, TCR 19.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0120 Chula Vista 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 8.1 6.9 7 0 0
2023 19.2 15.4 9 6 0
2022 32.3 29.2 5 16 0
2021 36.6 33.3 17 5 0
2020 53.2 49.8 19 12 0
2019 21.0 17.2 10 1 0
2018 13.1 8.7 6 0 0
2017 4.4 2.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Chula Vista

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 219 employers in Chula Vista, 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 HAI 28 19.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1328 Web61 19.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABS-0029-0028-00710 FAC-00710-LA MESA-CA 19.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6962-SWY-0029-0029-02442 19.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Martinelli Vineyard Management, Inc 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE farming 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE A. SAMBADO & SON INC 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Agromillora California 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chula Vista Medical Center - 751 Medical Center Court 2,422 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sharp Chula Vista Medical Ctr 2,094 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rohr Inc a UTC Aerospace Systems Company 1,957 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rohr, Inc. (Chula Vista CA) 1,457 FTE
NAT-TCR GNB Logistics LLC 19.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Capitol Distributing 19.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Whitemarsh Continuing Care Retirement Community 19.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Harrison Bay Senior Living 19.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0131 Bellevue 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0164 Spokane 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0710 St. Louis Park 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0751 Greenville 87 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.