Grocery Store · Washington

Trader Joe's 0157 West Seattle

West Seattle, WA · ~114 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
19.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0157 West Seattle runs at 587% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0157 West Seattle: 19.9 TCR = 587% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0157 West Seattle safety composite

Trader Joe's 0157 West Seattle 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 19.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 16.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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 0157 West Seattle: 12.5 → 24.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 32.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.83× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0157 West Seattle's TCR rose 12.5 from 12.5 in 2017 to 24.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 32.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · West Seattle, WA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 19.9 · 587% of ind

  • DART 16.6 DART
  • RANK #878/887
  • PHOTO 2770 Mor21
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 81 inj
  • SIZE ~114 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2770 Mor21 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0157 West Seattle in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0157 West Seattle averages 19.9 TCR (587% 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 0157 West Seattle TCR series: 2017=12.5 · 2018=24.1 · 2019=18.2 · 2020=17.5 · 2021=9.4 · 2022=32.5 · 2023=20.4 · 2024=24.9 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0157 West Seattle 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 #878 safest of 887 Grocery Store employers in Washington.

Trader Joe's 0157 West Seattle (114 employees, TCR 19.9) 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 0157 West Seattle
Trader Joe's 0157 West Seattle (114 employees, TCR 19.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0157 West Seattle 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 24.9 16.6 12 12 0
2023 20.4 15.6 7 10 0
2022 32.5 26.6 9 13 0
2021 9.4 7.8 3 3 0
2020 17.5 8.1 10 3 0
2019 18.2 9.1 13 1 0
2018 24.1 16.1 18 0 0
2017 12.5 4.2 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · WA · West Seattle

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 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 2770 Mor21 19.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Modesto #021 20.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bi-Rite Market 18th Street 20.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0611 Hoboken 19.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE PATERSON WA (WATTS FARMING) 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE McLeod Construction 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE Strider Construction Co 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE SJS Mechanical Services 114 FTE
NAT-TCR Big Bear 19.9 TCR
NAT-TCR McCoys Building Supply- Aransas Pass 19.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Isovolta, Inc. 19.9 TCR
NAT-TCR HG522 19.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0119 West Los Angeles 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0193 Santa Cruz 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0714 Minnetonka 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0026 San Diego 114 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.