Grocery Store · Colorado

Trader Joe's 0301 Boulder

Boulder, CO · ~120 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
20.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0301 Boulder runs at 614% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0301 Boulder: 20.9 TCR = 614% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0301 Boulder safety composite

Trader Joe's 0301 Boulder 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 20.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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 0301 Boulder: 4.8 → 15.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 35.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.44× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0301 Boulder's TCR rose 10.3 from 4.8 in 2016 to 15.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 35.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 20.9 · 614% of ind

  • DART 9.2 DART
  • RANK #636/639
  • PHOTO Store 1159
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 130 inj
  • SIZE ~120 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store 1159 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0301 Boulder in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0301 Boulder averages 20.9 TCR (614% 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 0301 Boulder TCR series: 2016=4.8 · 2017=9.9 · 2018=23.1 · 2019=16.6 · 2020=31.2 · 2021=28.4 · 2022=35.2 · 2023=23.8 · 2024=15.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0301 Boulder 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 #636 safest of 639 Grocery Store employers in Colorado.

Trader Joe's 0301 Boulder (120 employees, TCR 20.9) 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 0301 Boulder
Trader Joe's 0301 Boulder (120 employees, TCR 20.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0301 Boulder 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 15.1 9.2 18 0 0
2023 23.8 13.7 23 3 0
2022 35.2 27.5 20 12 0
2021 28.4 17.3 10 13 0
2020 31.2 13.2 21 5 0
2019 16.6 8.9 13 0 0
2018 23.1 15.9 16 0 0
2017 9.9 6.6 6 0 0
2016 4.8 1.2 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CO · Boulder

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 190 employers in Boulder, 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 Store 1159 20.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6962-ABS-0029-0028-00108 20.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0112 Monrovia 20.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0453 Austin 20.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mountain Prairie 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE CML Security, LLC. 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brinkman Construction 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE 7102103 FPL Neptune 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boulder Campus 1,554 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foothills Campus 1,368 FTE
CITY-NEAR Measurement Solutions-Boulder Flow 761 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flow Measurement Products 711 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 1159 20.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Kre-Bsl Husky Buckland Operation LLC 20.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Palihouse Santa Monica 20.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Black Elementary 20.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Elkhorn Valley Packing 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Powell Electronics Inc (Corporate) 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Green Bay Packaging 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0554 Hewlett 120 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.