Grocery Store · California

Trader Joe's 0179 Pasadena

Pasadena, CA · ~84 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0179 Pasadena runs at 536% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0179 Pasadena: 18.2 TCR = 536% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0179 Pasadena safety composite

Trader Joe's 0179 Pasadena 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

−1.1

2017→2024

Trader Joe's 0179 Pasadena injury rate improved

Trader Joe's 0179 Pasadena's TCR fell 1.1 from 16.5 in 2017 to 15.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 32.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=16.5 · 2018=15.3 · 2019=15.1 · 2020=19.7 · 2021=23.2 · 2022=32.7 · 2023=7.8 · 2024=15.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Pasadena, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 18.2 · 536% of ind

  • DART 13.9 DART
  • RANK #4468/4686
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0134 Fe…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 58 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0134 Federal Way (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0179 Pasadena in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0179 Pasadena averages 18.2 TCR (536% 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 0179 Pasadena TCR series: 2017=16.5 · 2018=15.3 · 2019=15.1 · 2020=19.7 · 2021=23.2 · 2022=32.7 · 2023=7.8 · 2024=15.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0179 Pasadena 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 California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4468 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Trader Joe's 0179 Pasadena (84 employees, TCR 18.2) 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 0179 Pasadena
Trader Joe's 0179 Pasadena (84 employees, TCR 18.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0179 Pasadena 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 15.5 13.9 10 0 0
2023 7.8 6.2 5 0 0
2022 32.7 29.3 4 15 0
2021 23.2 19.7 6 7 0
2020 19.7 13.1 6 6 0
2019 15.1 6.7 9 0 0
2018 15.3 6.8 9 0 0
2017 16.5 11.0 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Pasadena

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 195 employers in Pasadena, 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 0134 Federal Way 18.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6962-SWY-0025-0025-02697 18.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sunset Beach 10 18.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midvale #073 18.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE montalvo farms 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hansen Custom Farming, LLC 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hilarides Dairy 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE McIntyre Labor Service, LLC. 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR ACCO Engineered Systems 4,604 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2313-00000001 4,175 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Pasadena 2,397 FTE
CITY-NEAR Huntington Hospital 2,228 FTE
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0134 Federal Way 18.2 TCR
NAT-TCR BNNC, Inc. dba Alcoa Pines Health and Rehabilitation 18.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Vision Ace Hardware, Ft. Myers 18.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Unity Hospital 18.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0728 Coralville 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0769 Jacksonville 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE C043 South Bend 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE C011 Evansville 84 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.