Grocery Store · California

Trader Joe's 0181 Los Gatos

Los Gatos, CA · ~88 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
20.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0181 Los Gatos runs at 605% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0181 Los Gatos: 20.6 TCR = 605% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0181 Los Gatos safety composite

Trader Joe's 0181 Los Gatos 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 20.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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 0181 Los Gatos: 11.6 → 23.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 46.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.64× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0181 Los Gatos's TCR rose 11.7 from 11.6 in 2017 to 23.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 46.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Los Gatos, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 20.6 · 605% of ind

  • DART 13.1 DART
  • RANK #4570/4686
  • PHOTO 6962-SWY-0029-0029-0…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 73 inj
  • SIZE ~88 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 6962-SWY-0029-0029-02232 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0181 Los Gatos in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0181 Los Gatos averages 20.6 TCR (605% 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 0181 Los Gatos TCR series: 2017=11.6 · 2018=8.2 · 2019=19.9 · 2020=16.1 · 2021=22.7 · 2022=46.8 · 2023=16.1 · 2024=23.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0181 Los Gatos 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 #4570 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Trader Joe's 0181 Los Gatos (88 employees, TCR 20.6) 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 0181 Los Gatos
Trader Joe's 0181 Los Gatos (88 employees, TCR 20.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0181 Los Gatos 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 23.3 13.1 14 2 0
2023 16.1 9.7 9 1 0
2022 46.8 43.4 8 20 0
2021 22.7 14.0 10 3 0
2020 16.1 6.4 10 0 0
2019 19.9 6.7 11 1 0
2018 8.2 0.0 5 0 0
2017 11.6 9.9 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Los Gatos

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 40 employers in Los Gatos, 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 6962-SWY-0029-0029-02232 20.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Folsom #053 20.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1587 Swn44 20.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fresno-Shaw Ave #059 20.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Neil Bassetti Farms, LLC 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Espinosa 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shoei Foods USA, Inc. 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crown Hill Ranches Inc. 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Netflix LG 5,385 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6439-240 452 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boston Scientific 340 FTE
CITY-NEAR 240 BCCS - BAY CLUB COURTSIDE 254 FTE
NAT-TCR Sunday River Skiway Corp 20.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Elysian Hospice San Antonio LLC 20.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Tinley Park Bickford 20.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookstone Alz 20.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0140 Redmond 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0753 Columbia 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE ID Castings LLC 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Portland Nursery-Stark 88 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.