Grocery Store · California

Trader Joe's 0231 Oakland

Oakland, CA · ~141 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0231 Oakland runs at 408% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0231 Oakland: 13.9 TCR = 408% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0231 Oakland safety composite

Trader Joe's 0231 Oakland scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

−0.9

2017→2024

Trader Joe's 0231 Oakland injury rate improved

Trader Joe's 0231 Oakland's TCR fell 0.9 from 12.0 in 2017 to 11.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 20.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=12.0 · 2018=8.8 · 2019=10.3 · 2020=20.1 · 2021=12.2 · 2022=18.5 · 2023=17.9 · 2024=11.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 13.9 · 408% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #4141/4686
  • PHOTO Federal Way #043
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 83 inj
  • SIZE ~141 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Federal Way #043 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0231 Oakland in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0231 Oakland averages 13.9 TCR (408% 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 0231 Oakland TCR series: 2017=12 · 2018=8.8 · 2019=10.3 · 2020=20.1 · 2021=12.2 · 2022=18.5 · 2023=17.9 · 2024=11.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0231 Oakland falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 5% 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 #4141 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Trader Joe's 0231 Oakland (141 employees, TCR 13.9) 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 0231 Oakland
Trader Joe's 0231 Oakland (141 employees, TCR 13.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0231 Oakland 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 11.1 6.0 11 0 0
2023 17.9 13.7 11 6 0
2022 18.5 10.9 11 6 0
2021 12.2 8.8 9 2 0
2020 20.1 13.7 14 5 0
2019 10.3 3.1 9 1 0
2018 8.8 2.2 8 0 0
2017 12.0 4.8 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Oakland

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 458 employers in Oakland, 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 Federal Way #043 13.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 100505 13.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Orland Grocery Outlet 13.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SWY-0025-0025-00979 FAC-00979-NOVATO-CA 13.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Plug Connection -Vista 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE OCEAN VIEW FLOWERS, LLC 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE LABOR 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE VESSEY & COMPANY, INC. 141 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oakland Unified School District 4,473 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2032-02120301 4,408 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0206-02620301 3,210 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2032-02620301 2,922 FTE
NAT-TCR D1 Kennedy Yard 13.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Avante at Ormond Beach 13.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Community Blood Bank 13.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Commonwealth Senior Living at South Boston 13.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Public Health Department 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE Extruded Aluminum Company, LLC 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE US Gypsum East Chicago 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE Municipal services 141 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.