Grocery Store · California

Trader Joe's 0249 San Juan Capistrano

San Juan Capistrano, CA · ~79 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0249 San Juan Capistrano runs at 468% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0249 San Juan Capistrano: 15.9 TCR = 468% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0249 San Juan Capistrano safety composite

Trader Joe's 0249 San Juan Capistrano scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

−2.6

2017→2024

Trader Joe's 0249 San Juan Capistrano injury rate improved

Trader Joe's 0249 San Juan Capistrano's TCR fell 2.6 from 13.2 in 2017 to 10.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 29.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=13.2 · 2018=9.8 · 2019=29.7 · 2020=19.8 · 2022=21.2 · 2023=7.1 · 2024=10.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · San Juan Capistrano, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.9 · 468% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4321/4686
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0070 Sa…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 47 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0070 Sacramento (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0249 San Juan Capistrano in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0249 San Juan Capistrano averages 15.9 TCR (468% 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 0249 San Juan Capistrano TCR series: 2017=13.2 · 2018=9.8 · 2019=29.7 · 2020=19.8 · 2022=21.2 · 2023=7.1 · 2024=10.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0249 San Juan Capistrano falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 3% 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 #4321 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Trader Joe's 0249 San Juan Capistrano (79 employees, TCR 15.9) 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 0249 San Juan Capistrano
Trader Joe's 0249 San Juan Capistrano (79 employees, TCR 15.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0249 San Juan Capistrano 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 10.7 0.0 6 0 0
2023 7.1 7.1 4 0 0
2022 21.2 17.7 6 6 0
2020 19.8 11.5 10 2 0
2019 29.7 14.8 15 1 0
2018 9.8 3.9 5 0 0
2017 13.2 13.2 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · San Juan Capistrano

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 31 employers in San Juan Capistrano, 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 0070 Sacramento 15.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6962-SWY-0029-0029-02406 15.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0645 Bethesda 15.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4054-ABS-0020-0021-04142 15.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Crisalida Berry Farms, LLC 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE L E Cooke Co 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE MOBI'S 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sun Pacific Farming | Citrus Farming | Maricopa 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 435 886 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 390 811 FTE
CITY-NEAR A Better Life Recovery LLC, dba AMFM Healthcare 419 FTE
CITY-NEAR CR&R Incorporated -San Juan Capistrano 149 FTE
NAT-TCR Main Office - 01 15.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Weakely County Municipal Electric System 15.9 TCR
NAT-TCR JR Johnson LLC 15.9 TCR
NAT-TCR WCCI 15.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0727 Shoreview 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Price Brothers Management Company- Corporate Office 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corteva Johnston Campus - JH30 Krug 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Doylestown Health Care Center 79 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, 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.