Grocery Store · California

Trader Joe's 0234 Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA · ~104 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
21.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0234 Los Angeles runs at 631% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0234 Los Angeles: 21.4 TCR = 631% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0234 Los Angeles safety composite

Trader Joe's 0234 Los Angeles scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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).

F

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 21.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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 0234 Los Angeles: 9.1 → 13.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 36.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.55× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0234 Los Angeles's TCR rose 3.9 from 9.1 in 2017 to 13.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 36.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Los Angeles, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 21.4 · 631% of ind

  • DART 11.7 DART
  • RANK #4593/4686
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0115 La…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 79 inj
  • SIZE ~104 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0115 Lafayette (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0234 Los Angeles in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0234 Los Angeles averages 21.4 TCR (631% 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 0234 Los Angeles TCR series: 2017=9.1 · 2018=11.3 · 2019=19.8 · 2020=35.2 · 2021=36.6 · 2022=31.3 · 2023=15.3 · 2024=13 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0234 Los Angeles 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 #4593 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Trader Joe's 0234 Los Angeles (104 employees, TCR 21.4) 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 0234 Los Angeles
Trader Joe's 0234 Los Angeles (104 employees, TCR 21.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0234 Los Angeles 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 13.0 11.7 9 1 0
2023 15.3 10.2 11 1 0
2022 31.3 23.5 8 12 0
2021 36.6 24.9 16 6 0
2020 35.2 29.3 11 13 0
2019 19.8 10.7 12 1 0
2018 11.3 7.0 7 1 0
2017 9.1 4.5 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Los Angeles

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 2,064 employers in Los Angeles, 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 0115 Lafayette 21.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SWN 74 21.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0201 Brentwood 21.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brentwood #052 21.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE farm management inc 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kendall Farms LP 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maple Dairy L.P 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Veg-Land, Inc. 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR Live Nation Worldwide, Inc. 50,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Los Angeles 40,333 FTE
CITY-NEAR LADWP 11,717 FTE
CITY-NEAR Los Angeles Department of Water and Power 10,346 FTE
NAT-TCR Msy-Ground Ops 21.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Tus-Ground Ops 21.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sloatsburg Garage 21.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Anderson Memory Care LLC dba Primrose Memory Care of Anderson 21.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0156 Olympia 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE S04193 - WM of Utah West Jordan 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lake Charles 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Austin Public Schools ISD#492-Ellis Middle School 104 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.