Grocery Store · Colorado

Trader Joe's 0300 Denver

Denver, CO · ~126 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
22.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0300 Denver runs at 672% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0300 Denver: 22.8 TCR = 672% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0300 Denver safety composite

Trader Joe's 0300 Denver 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

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 22.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 24.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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 0300 Denver: 20.9 → 28.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 63.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.07× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0300 Denver's TCR rose 7.9 from 20.9 in 2016 to 28.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 63.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Denver, CO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 22.8 · 672% of ind

  • DART 24.5 DART
  • RANK #638/639
  • PHOTO 2592 Far6
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 152 inj
  • SIZE ~126 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2592 Far6 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0300 Denver in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0300 Denver averages 22.8 TCR (672% 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 0300 Denver TCR series: 2016=20.9 · 2017=9.1 · 2018=16.4 · 2019=14.2 · 2020=17.6 · 2021=38.7 · 2022=63.1 · 2023=37 · 2024=28.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0300 Denver 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 Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #638 safest of 639 Grocery Store employers in Colorado.

Trader Joe's 0300 Denver (126 employees, TCR 22.8) 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 0300 Denver
Trader Joe's 0300 Denver (126 employees, TCR 22.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0300 Denver 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 28.8 24.5 33 0 0
2023 37.0 25.0 22 18 0
2022 63.1 54.8 23 38 0
2021 38.7 24.8 17 22 0
2020 17.6 13.7 11 7 0
2019 14.2 10.2 11 3 0
2018 16.4 11.3 14 2 0
2017 9.1 5.7 8 0 0
2016 20.9 12.9 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CO · Denver

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 1,757 employers in Denver, CO · 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 2592 Far6 22.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0558 Brooklyn 22.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lancaster #035 22.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Adventure Supermarket, LLC EA#19 22.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Catalyze, LLC 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE 102923 - DVARMC Phase 4 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sun Construction & Facility Services, Inc. 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spacecon Specialty Contractors, LLC 126 FTE
CITY-NEAR DEN DEN 9,832 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-DEN 6,769 FTE
CITY-NEAR DEN - Airport United Airlines Offices 5,277 FTE
CITY-NEAR CO-01 4,581 FTE
NAT-TCR KOTAK Express LLC 22.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 2592 Far6 22.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Chelsea at Bridgewater 22.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0558 Brooklyn 22.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Walker Mechanical Contractors 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brevard Achievement Center 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE Deltak Manufacturing Inc. 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE Varbros 126 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, 2016. 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.