Grocery Store · California

Trader Joe's 0239 Santa Maria

Santa Maria, CA · ~67 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0239 Santa Maria runs at 369% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0239 Santa Maria: 12.5 TCR = 369% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0239 Santa Maria safety composite

Trader Joe's 0239 Santa Maria scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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).

F

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

−1.4

2017→2024

Trader Joe's 0239 Santa Maria injury rate improved

Trader Joe's 0239 Santa Maria's TCR fell 1.4 from 4.9 in 2017 to 3.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 25.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.9 · 2018=7.1 · 2019=22.8 · 2020=6.3 · 2021=25.9 · 2022=22.7 · 2023=6.9 · 2024=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Santa Maria, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.5 · 369% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #3947/4686
  • PHOTO 540 Ctv85
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 37 inj
  • SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 540 Ctv85 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0239 Santa Maria in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0239 Santa Maria averages 12.5 TCR (369% 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 0239 Santa Maria TCR series: 2017=4.9 · 2018=7.1 · 2019=22.8 · 2020=6.3 · 2021=25.9 · 2022=22.7 · 2023=6.9 · 2024=3.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0239 Santa Maria 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 #3947 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Trader Joe's 0239 Santa Maria (67 employees, TCR 12.5) 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 0239 Santa Maria
Trader Joe's 0239 Santa Maria (67 employees, TCR 12.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0239 Santa Maria 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 3.5 3.5 2 0 0
2023 6.9 3.5 4 0 0
2022 22.7 20.8 5 7 0
2021 25.9 19.9 9 4 0
2020 6.3 2.1 3 0 0
2019 22.8 11.4 9 1 0
2018 7.1 4.8 3 0 0
2017 4.9 4.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Santa Maria

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 280 employers in Santa Maria, 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 540 Ctv85 12.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roxford Produce International 12.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4054-ABS-0020-0021-04124 12.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5472-NAI-0032-0032-03432 12.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sonoma GVIC Ranches 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE MUGU RANCH PARTNERSHIP 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Travaille and Phippen, Inc. 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nurseries 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rancho Nuevo Harvesting, Inc. 2,290 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030364 2,110 FTE
CITY-NEAR 64030364-364001 MARIAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 2,074 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marian Regional Medical Center 2,021 FTE
NAT-TCR Stoughton Area School District 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Dakota Contracting Corporation 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR TNN007 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Efraimson Electric Inc Bryant 12.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0645 Bethesda 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wagner Business Operations LLC 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cenveo Worldwide Ltd. Chicopee 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE S04009 - WM of TN - Memphis 67 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.