Grocery Store · California

Trader Joe's 0253 Santa Monica

Santa Monica, CA · ~114 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0253 Santa Monica runs at 431% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0253 Santa Monica: 14.6 TCR = 431% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0253 Santa Monica safety composite

Trader Joe's 0253 Santa Monica scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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 0253 Santa Monica: 0.0 → 10.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 21.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.48× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0253 Santa Monica's TCR rose 10.6 from 0.0 in 2019 to 10.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 21.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Santa Monica, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 14.6 · 431% of ind

  • DART 7.0 DART
  • RANK #4215/4686
  • PHOTO Ogden #079
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 50 inj
  • SIZE ~114 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ogden #079 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0253 Santa Monica in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0253 Santa Monica averages 14.6 TCR (431% 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 0253 Santa Monica TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=17.2 · 2021=21.9 · 2022=18 · 2023=20.1 · 2024=10.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0253 Santa Monica falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 4% 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 #4215 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Trader Joe's 0253 Santa Monica (114 employees, TCR 14.6) 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 0253 Santa Monica
Trader Joe's 0253 Santa Monica (114 employees, TCR 14.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0253 Santa Monica 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 10.6 7.0 9 0 0
2023 20.1 7.1 17 0 0
2022 18.0 12.9 8 6 0
2021 21.9 16.5 10 6 0
2020 17.2 11.9 6 7 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Santa Monica

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 133 employers in Santa Monica, 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 Ogden #079 14.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0009 Modesto 14.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0139 Everett 14.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0256 Santa Monica 14.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wonderful Orchards-Belridge 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE Olivarez Honey Bees 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE SIERRA AG SERVICES, INC 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE PURO VIDA BERRIES 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hulu-DMED 1,522 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2252-00000735 1,520 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA173 PROVIDENCE SAINT JOHN S HEALTH CTR-SANTA 1,414 FTE
CITY-NEAR Santa Monica 919 FTE
NAT-TCR Main Yard 14.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Trevdan - Harrisburg Yard 14.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Worth Steel & Machinery 14.6 TCR
NAT-TCR South Texas Emergency Care Foundation, Inc. Admin 14.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0620 Washington 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE NSR Louisiana, LLC d/b/a Northshore Rehabilitation Hospital 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ali Group North America 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Richmond MC - USSTC 114 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. 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.