Grocery Store · California

Trader Joe's 0197 Tustin

Tustin, CA · ~117 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0197 Tustin runs at 390% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0197 Tustin: 13.3 TCR = 390% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0197 Tustin safety composite

Trader Joe's 0197 Tustin scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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 0197 Tustin: 8.6 → 15.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 24.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.81× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0197 Tustin's TCR rose 6.6 from 8.6 in 2017 to 15.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 24.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 13.3 · 390% of ind

  • DART 10.8 DART
  • RANK #4063/4686
  • PHOTO Superior Grocers 133
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 64 inj
  • SIZE ~117 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Superior Grocers 133 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0197 Tustin in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0197 Tustin averages 13.3 TCR (390% 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 0197 Tustin TCR series: 2017=8.6 · 2018=12.4 · 2019=5.3 · 2020=16 · 2021=24.8 · 2022=12.4 · 2023=11.6 · 2024=15.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0197 Tustin falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 6% 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 #4063 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Trader Joe's 0197 Tustin (117 employees, TCR 13.3) 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 0197 Tustin
Trader Joe's 0197 Tustin (117 employees, TCR 13.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0197 Tustin 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 15.1 10.8 14 0 0
2023 11.6 9.3 10 0 0
2022 12.4 8.7 6 4 0
2021 24.8 21.0 8 12 0
2020 16.0 8.6 7 6 0
2019 5.3 4.0 4 0 0
2018 12.4 4.1 9 0 0
2017 8.6 1.4 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Tustin

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 94 employers in Tustin, 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 Superior Grocers 133 13.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bristol Farms - 019 - BF Palm Desert 13.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carrollton #146 13.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6400-SWY-0027-0027-00544 13.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Frog Hollow Farm LLC 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Standard Cattle LLC 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE LFA 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oxnard Plant #4 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR TUSTCA70 1,036 FTE
CITY-NEAR TUSTCA70 - Pacific Bell Telephone Company 840 FTE
CITY-NEAR 738 YOUNG S MARKET-TUSTIN 765 FTE
CITY-NEAR Headquarters, CA 691 FTE
NAT-TCR Balmar LLC 13.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Skyline Solar Hamilton, NJ Office 13.3 TCR
NAT-TCR MNM017 13.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Artisan Inc. 13.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0137 Seattle 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Isd #550 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Lake Clinic, P.A. 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Travis Construction Company, Inc. 117 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.