Grocery Store · Washington

Trader Joe's 0148 University Place

University Place, WA · ~120 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
19.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Trader Joe's 0148 University Place runs at 561% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0148 University Place: 19.1 TCR = 561% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0148 University Place safety composite

Trader Joe's 0148 University Place 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 19.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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 0148 University Place: 8.5 → 18.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 37.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.51× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0148 University Place's TCR rose 9.9 from 8.5 in 2017 to 18.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 37.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · University Place, WA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 19.1 · 561% of ind

  • DART 9.7 DART
  • RANK #875/887
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0102 Te…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 55 inj
  • SIZE ~120 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0102 Temecula (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Washington employers → · Look up another →

Trader Joe's 0148 University Place in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0148 University Place averages 19.1 TCR (561% 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 0148 University Place TCR series: 2017=8.5 · 2020=10.3 · 2022=37.7 · 2023=20.5 · 2024=18.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0148 University Place 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 Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #875 safest of 887 Grocery Store employers in Washington.

Trader Joe's 0148 University Place (120 employees, TCR 19.1) 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 0148 University Place
Trader Joe's 0148 University Place (120 employees, TCR 19.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0148 University Place 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 18.4 9.7 16 3 0
2023 20.5 10.8 14 5 0
2022 37.7 30.7 13 19 0
2020 10.3 6.5 7 1 0
2017 8.5 5.1 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · WA · University Place

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 15 employers in University Place, WA · 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 0102 Temecula 19.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Global Specialty Fulfillment : OAK6 19.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0605 Paramus 19.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0690 Naperville 19.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Skagit Horticulture - MB 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wolverine Orchards LLC 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wm. Winkler Company 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE McClone Construction-WA 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR 701-00615 263 FTE
CITY-NEAR TK Elevator Tacoma 192 FTE
CITY-NEAR 10588 Chambers Bay 168 FTE
CITY-NEAR PRMX LLC 91 FTE
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0102 Temecula 19.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Country Village Estates 19.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Haven Homes 19.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Trinity Ridge 19.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jet Aviation Specialists LLC 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Omni Manor Health Care Center 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE S03783 - Phoenix Hauling - North 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rouses Market #64 120 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, 2020, 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.