Grocery Store · Colorado

Trader Joe's 0302 Denver

Denver, CO · ~98 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
25.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0302 Denver runs at 749% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0302 Denver: 25.5 TCR = 749% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0302 Denver safety composite

Trader Joe's 0302 Denver scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 25.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 18.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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 0302 Denver: 7.4 → 30.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 42.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.71× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0302 Denver's TCR rose 22.7 from 7.4 in 2016 to 30.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 42.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 25.5 · 749% of ind

  • DART 18.1 DART
  • RANK #639/639
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0242 Cy…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 113 inj
  • SIZE ~98 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0242 Cypress (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0302 Denver in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0302 Denver averages 25.5 TCR (749% 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 0302 Denver TCR series: 2016=7.4 · 2017=17.3 · 2018=13.7 · 2019=13.8 · 2020=34.4 · 2021=40.8 · 2022=42.8 · 2023=28.9 · 2024=30.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0302 Denver falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 0% 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 #639 safest of 639 Grocery Store employers in Colorado.

Trader Joe's 0302 Denver (98 employees, TCR 25.5) 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Trader Joe's 0302 Denver
Trader Joe's 0302 Denver (98 employees, TCR 25.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0302 Denver 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 30.1 18.1 30 0 0
2023 28.9 19.6 14 11 0
2022 42.8 35.2 11 23 0
2021 40.8 31.6 11 20 0
2020 34.4 24.2 18 9 0
2019 13.8 6.9 10 0 0
2018 13.7 10.3 6 2 0
2017 17.3 9.6 9 0 0
2016 7.4 0.0 4 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 Trader Joe's 0242 Cypress 25.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SWN 59 25.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0543 New York 25.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0270 Shoreline 25.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kipling Service Center 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Civil Construction 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ammex Masonry, Inc. 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Denver CO Branch 98 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 Salem Acquisition 1, LLC 25.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Gold Standard Truss, LLC. 25.5 TCR
NAT-TCR B & M Manufacturing 25.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Directpro Logistics, LLC 25.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0280 Henderson 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0526 West Hartford 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vistar Georgia - 1010 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE SEMCO Construction, Inc. 98 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.