Grocery Store · California

Trader Joe's 0123 Walnut Creek

Walnut Creek, CA · ~103 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0123 Walnut Creek runs at 386% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0123 Walnut Creek: 13.1 TCR = 386% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0123 Walnut Creek safety composite

Trader Joe's 0123 Walnut Creek 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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 0123 Walnut Creek: 11.3 → 12.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 21.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0123 Walnut Creek's TCR rose 1.3 from 11.3 in 2017 to 12.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 21.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Walnut Creek, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 13.1 · 386% of ind

  • DART 8.8 DART
  • RANK #4040/4686
  • PHOTO 6962-SWY-0025-0025-0…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 60 inj
  • SIZE ~103 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 6962-SWY-0025-0025-01196 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0123 Walnut Creek in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0123 Walnut Creek averages 13.1 TCR (386% 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 0123 Walnut Creek TCR series: 2017=11.3 · 2018=12.7 · 2019=17.1 · 2020=21.3 · 2021=7.6 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=19.5 · 2024=12.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0123 Walnut Creek 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 #4040 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Trader Joe's 0123 Walnut Creek (103 employees, TCR 13.1) 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 0123 Walnut Creek
Trader Joe's 0123 Walnut Creek (103 employees, TCR 13.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0123 Walnut Creek 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 12.6 8.8 8 2 0
2023 19.5 15.6 9 6 0
2022 2.9 2.9 2 0 0
2021 7.6 6.1 5 0 0
2020 21.3 12.1 12 2 0
2019 17.1 10.8 10 1 0
2018 12.7 6.3 7 1 0
2017 11.3 6.5 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Walnut Creek

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 119 employers in Walnut Creek, 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-0025-0025-01196 13.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0153 Salem 13.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Factor Sales, Inc. Del Sol 11 13.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1035 13.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE T&A Onions - Huron - Harvest 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Macdoel Fields 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alexandra Dates Inc 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE DiMare Company 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 522 2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 523 2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2032-02121551 2,806 FTE
CITY-NEAR 02821551 WALNUT CREEK HOSPITAL 1,924 FTE
NAT-TCR Dancer Logging, Inc. 13.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Oak View Farms LLC 13.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Madison Facility 13.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Keokuk/HMW 13.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE C009 Pikeville 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Laerdal Medical Corporation 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE S04290 - Camp Hill 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rouses Market #62 103 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.