Grocery Store · California

Trader Joe's 0121 Torrance

Torrance, CA · ~101 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0121 Torrance runs at 428% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0121 Torrance: 14.5 TCR = 428% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0121 Torrance safety composite

Trader Joe's 0121 Torrance scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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 14.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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 0121 Torrance: 10.3 → 16.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 16.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.57× in 2019

Trader Joe's 0121 Torrance's TCR rose 6.3 from 10.3 in 2017 to 16.6 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 16.7 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 14.5 · 428% of ind

  • DART 8.3 DART
  • RANK #4203/4686
  • PHOTO PCC Community Market…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~101 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PCC Community Markets Edmonds (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0121 Torrance in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0121 Torrance averages 14.5 TCR (428% 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 0121 Torrance TCR series: 2017=10.3 · 2018=16.7 · 2019=16.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0121 Torrance falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 4% 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 #4203 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Trader Joe's 0121 Torrance (101 employees, TCR 14.5) 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 0121 Torrance
Trader Joe's 0121 Torrance (101 employees, TCR 14.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0121 Torrance 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
2019 16.6 8.3 10 2 0
2018 16.7 6.1 11 0 0
2017 10.3 7.4 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Torrance

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 332 employers in Torrance, 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 PCC Community Markets Edmonds 14.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6400-SWY 0027 3247 14.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0224 San Diego 14.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sharp Shopper Inc. - Waynesboro Store 14.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kirschenmann Farms, Inc 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE M & R Company 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Sun Grower Services 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Camacho FLC, Inc 101 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harbor-UCLA Medical Center 4,144 FTE
CITY-NEAR Torrance Memorial Medical Center 3,808 FTE
CITY-NEAR Los Angeles 3,229 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 494 2,621 FTE
NAT-TCR WHEMCO-Ohio Foundry Inc. 14.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Catawba Hospital 14.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Regency Sun Terrace Hermiston 14.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 204 - Shawnee Retail Store 14.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kishman's IGA 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6836-MIA 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 0347 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hidden Valley Golf and Ski, Inc. 101 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: 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.