Grocery Store · California

Trader Joe's 0199 Chico

Chico, CA · ~92 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0199 Chico runs at 363% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0199 Chico: 12.3 TCR = 363% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0199 Chico safety composite

Trader Joe's 0199 Chico scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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).

D

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

−11.3

2017→2024

Trader Joe's 0199 Chico injury rate improved

Trader Joe's 0199 Chico's TCR fell 11.3 from 12.8 in 2017 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 30.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=12.8 · 2018=11.3 · 2019=10.0 · 2020=14.3 · 2021=30.0 · 2022=8.4 · 2023=10.6 · 2024=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 12.3 · 363% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3927/4686
  • PHOTO FAREWAY STORES, INC.…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~92 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FAREWAY STORES, INC. 179 LINCOLN (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0199 Chico in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0199 Chico averages 12.3 TCR (363% 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 0199 Chico TCR series: 2017=12.8 · 2018=11.3 · 2019=10 · 2020=14.3 · 2021=30 · 2022=8.4 · 2023=10.6 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0199 Chico falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 7% 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 #3927 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Trader Joe's 0199 Chico (92 employees, TCR 12.3) 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 0199 Chico
Trader Joe's 0199 Chico (92 employees, TCR 12.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0199 Chico 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 1.4 0.0 1 0 0
2023 10.6 6.0 4 3 0
2022 8.4 8.4 0 5 0
2021 30.0 28.2 4 13 0
2020 14.3 14.3 6 2 0
2019 10.0 8.3 6 0 0
2018 11.3 6.5 7 0 0
2017 12.8 3.6 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Chico

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 189 employers in Chico, 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 FAREWAY STORES, INC. 179 LINCOLN 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Food City 002 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5472-NAI-0032-0032-02488 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6962-SWY-0029-0029-02029 12.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nunez Ag, Inc. 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heritage Vineyard Management, Inc. 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Terra Bella Nursery 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glass House Group Inc. 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-11 4,124 FTE
CITY-NEAR Enloe Medical Center Employees 3,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 72 2,394 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 521 2,370 FTE
NAT-TCR TXS006 12.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mosaic Axtell 12.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Genoa Retirement Village 12.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Fareway Stores, Inc. 179 Lincoln 12.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0129 Lynnwood 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0715 Woodbury 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE MTS Indianapolis 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE S04998 - WM of Alabama - Birmingham 92 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.