Grocery Store · Washington

Trader Joe's 0151 Bellingham

Bellingham, WA · ~144 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0151 Bellingham runs at 516% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0151 Bellingham: 17.5 TCR = 516% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0151 Bellingham safety composite

Trader Joe's 0151 Bellingham scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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 17.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

−0.8

2017→2024

Trader Joe's 0151 Bellingham injury rate improved

Trader Joe's 0151 Bellingham's TCR fell 0.8 from 15.9 in 2017 to 15.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 33.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=15.9 · 2018=9.8 · 2019=20.1 · 2020=7.9 · 2021=13.8 · 2022=33.0 · 2023=24.8 · 2024=15.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Bellingham, WA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 17.5 · 516% of ind

  • DART 7.5 DART
  • RANK #861/887
  • PHOTO BG's Value Market
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 105 inj
  • SIZE ~144 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BG's Value Market (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0151 Bellingham in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0151 Bellingham averages 17.5 TCR (516% 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 0151 Bellingham TCR series: 2017=15.9 · 2018=9.8 · 2019=20.1 · 2020=7.9 · 2021=13.8 · 2022=33 · 2023=24.8 · 2024=15 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0151 Bellingham falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 2% 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 #861 safest of 887 Grocery Store employers in Washington.

Trader Joe's 0151 Bellingham (144 employees, TCR 17.5) 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 0151 Bellingham
Trader Joe's 0151 Bellingham (144 employees, TCR 17.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0151 Bellingham 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 15.0 7.5 18 0 0
2023 24.8 18.3 12 15 0
2022 33.0 27.9 15 17 0
2021 13.8 12.6 9 2 0
2020 7.9 6.7 7 0 0
2019 20.1 10.5 20 1 0
2018 9.8 4.9 10 0 0
2017 15.9 10.2 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · WA · Bellingham

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 210 employers in Bellingham, 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 BG's Value Market 17.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0624 Pittsburgh 17.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5472-NAI-0033-0033-02532 17.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 69030001-040 CARDENAS MARKETS 40 17.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rognlin's, Inc. 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE Expert Drywall, Inc. 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE Intermountain West Insulation 144 FTE
CITY-NEAR Western Washington University 3,794 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph Medical Center Main Campus 2,537 FTE
CITY-NEAR North American Operations - Matrix Service Inc. 2,063 FTE
CITY-NEAR PHMG SJMC Clinics 864 FTE
NAT-TCR Dort Plants 17.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lakefield Veterinary Group - 145 17.5 TCR
NAT-TCR MHCNC, Inc. dba Care Manor Nursing and Rehab 17.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Warm Springs Rehabilitation Hospital Kyle 17.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ft Worth 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yale Mechanical 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE Love Bottling Company 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sacramento Office 144 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.