Grocery Store · California

Trader Joe's 0207 Palo Alto

Palo Alto, CA · ~94 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0207 Palo Alto runs at 524% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0207 Palo Alto: 17.8 TCR = 524% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0207 Palo Alto safety composite

Trader Joe's 0207 Palo Alto 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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 0207 Palo Alto: 15.1 → 120.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 120.1 TCR · DART/TCR 4.49× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0207 Palo Alto's TCR rose 105.0 from 15.1 in 2017 to 120.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 4.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Palo Alto, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.8 · 524% of ind

  • DART 80.0 DART
  • RANK #4445/4686
  • PHOTO 6962-ABS-0029-0028-0…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 57 inj
  • SIZE ~94 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 6962-ABS-0029-0028-00314 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0207 Palo Alto in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0207 Palo Alto averages 17.8 TCR (524% 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 0207 Palo Alto TCR series: 2017=15.1 · 2018=13.1 · 2019=10.1 · 2020=12.5 · 2021=23.6 · 2022=38.7 · 2023=11.6 · 2024=120.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0207 Palo Alto 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 #4445 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Trader Joe's 0207 Palo Alto (94 employees, TCR 17.8) 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 0207 Palo Alto
Trader Joe's 0207 Palo Alto (94 employees, TCR 17.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0207 Palo Alto 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 120.1 80.0 6 3 0
2023 11.6 5.0 5 2 0
2022 38.7 33.2 6 15 0
2021 23.6 15.2 12 2 0
2020 12.5 4.7 7 1 0
2019 10.1 6.8 6 0 0
2018 13.1 11.4 8 0 0
2017 15.1 0.0 7 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Palo Alto

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 116 employers in Palo Alto, 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-ABS-0029-0028-00314 17.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0691 Chicago 17.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0076 Stockton 17.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6962-SWY-0029-0029-01672 17.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE MORALES FARM LABOR SERVICE 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fondomonte CA - Blythe Farm 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Robinson Enterprises, Inc 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Javier Martinez Contracting 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stanford Health Care 16,371 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-CA-Palo Alto-Deer Creek-Office 1,878 FTE
CITY-NEAR Varian, Palo Alto 1,396 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palo Alto Medical Foundation (378-10110) 1,227 FTE
NAT-TCR King Kutter 17.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Binderholz Enfield LLC 17.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Hopkins Center 17.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Rajala Timber Co 17.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Snyder Memorial Health Care Center 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE White Bear Lake 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE S02923 - Atlanta West Hauling 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE S03951 - WI Franklin 94 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.