Grocery Store · California

Trader Joe's 0186 Berkeley

Berkeley, CA · ~123 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0186 Berkeley runs at 556% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0186 Berkeley: 18.9 TCR = 556% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0186 Berkeley safety composite

Trader Joe's 0186 Berkeley scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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 18.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 25.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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 0186 Berkeley: 8.6 → 31.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 31.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.37× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0186 Berkeley's TCR rose 23.1 from 8.6 in 2017 to 31.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Berkeley, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 18.9 · 556% of ind

  • DART 25.8 DART
  • RANK #4508/4686
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0041 Sa…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 91 inj
  • SIZE ~123 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0041 San Luis Obispo (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0186 Berkeley in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0186 Berkeley averages 18.9 TCR (556% 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 0186 Berkeley TCR series: 2017=8.6 · 2018=15.6 · 2019=12.4 · 2020=11.4 · 2021=25.9 · 2022=24.9 · 2023=20.7 · 2024=31.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0186 Berkeley 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 #4508 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Trader Joe's 0186 Berkeley (123 employees, TCR 18.9) 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 0186 Berkeley
Trader Joe's 0186 Berkeley (123 employees, TCR 18.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0186 Berkeley 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 31.7 25.8 14 13 0
2023 20.7 14.9 12 6 0
2022 24.9 23.6 16 3 0
2021 25.9 18.7 14 4 0
2020 11.4 7.6 7 2 0
2019 12.4 5.0 10 0 0
2018 15.6 3.6 11 2 0
2017 8.6 3.7 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Berkeley

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 120 employers in Berkeley, 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 0041 San Luis Obispo 18.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6962-SWY 0029 2272 18.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0632 Wayne 18.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0517 Cambridge 18.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Four Star Fruit 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE CADY2 - 05 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Enterprise Vineyards 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE DeBernardi Bros 123 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Berkeley 22,120 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alta Bates Summit Medical Center (213-ABH) 1,998 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Bay Hospitals (30391) 1,917 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berkeley, CA 1,106 FTE
NAT-TCR Beecher Fire Protection District 18.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Tmp Opco LLC 18.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Zinger Sheet Metal Company 18.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0632 Wayne 18.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Craig Godwin Inc DBA United Machine Works 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Dairy Charleston Wv Facility 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE CFIT 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hunter Douglas 123 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.

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