Grocery Store · California

Trader Joe's 0126 Mission Viejo

Mission Viejo, CA · ~94 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
22.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0126 Mission Viejo runs at 654% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0126 Mission Viejo: 22.2 TCR = 654% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0126 Mission Viejo safety composite

Trader Joe's 0126 Mission Viejo 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 22.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.08 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.9

2017→2024

Trader Joe's 0126 Mission Viejo injury rate improved

Trader Joe's 0126 Mission Viejo's TCR fell 1.9 from 19.2 in 2017 to 17.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 31.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=19.2 · 2018=6.3 · 2019=31.5 · 2020=24.8 · 2021=30.9 · 2022=30.1 · 2023=17.8 · 2024=17.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Mission Viejo, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 22.2 · 654% of ind

  • DART 10.1 DART
  • RANK #4611/4686
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0791 Mo…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 88 inj
  • SIZE ~94 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0791 Morrisville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0126 Mission Viejo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0126 Mission Viejo averages 22.2 TCR (654% 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 0126 Mission Viejo TCR series: 2017=19.2 · 2018=6.3 · 2019=31.5 · 2020=24.8 · 2021=30.9 · 2022=30.1 · 2023=17.8 · 2024=17.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0126 Mission Viejo 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 #4611 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Trader Joe's 0126 Mission Viejo (94 employees, TCR 22.2) 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 0126 Mission Viejo
Trader Joe's 0126 Mission Viejo (94 employees, TCR 22.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0126 Mission Viejo 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 17.3 10.1 12 0 0
2023 17.8 16.3 11 1 0
2022 30.1 22.2 11 8 0
2021 30.9 22.8 11 8 0
2020 24.8 13.9 12 4 0
2019 31.5 25.2 20 0 0
2018 6.3 3.1 4 0 0
2017 19.2 5.9 7 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Mission Viejo

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 77 employers in Mission Viejo, 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 0791 Morrisville 22.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boyers Food Market Inc 22.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR WEB 87 22.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1428 22.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE MORALES FARM LABOR SERVICE 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fondomonte CA - Blythe Farm 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Robinson Enterprises, Inc 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Javier Martinez Contracting 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA822 MISSION HOSPITAL MISSION VIEJO HR 2,178 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - DCX2 347 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Coast Community Services 340 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mission Viejo 526 298 FTE
NAT-TCR Indian Lake Rehabilitation 22.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Alamo Car Rental - 36L6 22.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Elevate Care Niles 22.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Avita of Brunswick 22.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Snyder Memorial Health Care Center 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE White Bear Lake 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE S02923 - Atlanta West Hauling 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE S03951 - WI Franklin 94 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.