Grocery Store · California

Trader Joe's 0229 Milpitas

Milpitas, CA · ~86 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
22.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0229 Milpitas runs at 666% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0229 Milpitas: 22.6 TCR = 666% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0229 Milpitas safety composite

Trader Joe's 0229 Milpitas scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% 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).

D

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 22.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

−19.6

2020→2024

Trader Joe's 0229 Milpitas injury rate improved

Trader Joe's 0229 Milpitas's TCR fell 19.6 from 22.6 in 2020 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 49.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=22.6 · 2021=23.6 · 2022=49.3 · 2023=14.8 · 2024=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 22.6 · 666% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4622/4686
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0455 Sa…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0455 San Antonio (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0229 Milpitas in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0229 Milpitas averages 22.6 TCR (666% 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 0229 Milpitas TCR series: 2020=22.6 · 2021=23.6 · 2022=49.3 · 2023=14.8 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0229 Milpitas 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 #4622 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Trader Joe's 0229 Milpitas (86 employees, TCR 22.6) 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 0229 Milpitas
Trader Joe's 0229 Milpitas (86 employees, TCR 22.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0229 Milpitas 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 2.9 0.0 2 0 0
2023 14.8 9.9 3 6 0
2022 49.3 45.2 5 19 0
2021 23.6 8.6 10 1 0
2020 22.6 22.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Milpitas

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 161 employers in Milpitas, 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 0455 San Antonio 22.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0190 Elk Grove 22.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0545 New York 22.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0551 Commack 22.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE MALAGA HARVEST SHOP 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Muller Ranch, LLC 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE OXNARD TERRACE 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mushroom Farms 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 454 2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR California 2,531 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2636-CALIFORNIA, MILPITAS 2,400 FTE
CITY-NEAR 011 SanDisk HQ 1,952 FTE
NAT-TCR 258980-St Clair Shores Po 22.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0455 San Antonio 22.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Delaware Court Healthcare Center 22.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Department of Public Works/Parks 22.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0791 Morrisville 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Overland Park KS Millwork 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nags Head Elementary 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lakes Region EMS 86 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. 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.