Grocery Store · Texas

Trader Joe's 0426 Houston

Houston, TX · ~113 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
24.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0426 Houston runs at 729% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0426 Houston: 24.8 TCR = 729% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0426 Houston safety composite

Trader Joe's 0426 Houston 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 24.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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 0426 Houston: 14.1 → 22.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 46.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.55× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0426 Houston's TCR rose 8.8 from 14.1 in 2016 to 22.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 46.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 24.8 · 729% of ind

  • DART 13.5 DART
  • RANK #1899/1899
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0683 Do…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 123 inj
  • SIZE ~113 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0683 Downers Grove (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0426 Houston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0426 Houston averages 24.8 TCR (729% 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 0426 Houston TCR series: 2016=14.1 · 2017=9.5 · 2018=18.4 · 2019=18.9 · 2020=20.2 · 2021=46.4 · 2022=41.8 · 2023=30.9 · 2024=22.9 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0426 Houston 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 Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1899 safest of 1899 Grocery Store employers in Texas.

Trader Joe's 0426 Houston (113 employees, TCR 24.8) 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Trader Joe's 0426 Houston
Trader Joe's 0426 Houston (113 employees, TCR 24.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0426 Houston 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 22.9 13.5 21 1 0
2023 30.9 18.8 23 5 0
2022 41.8 33.0 17 16 0
2021 46.4 36.8 8 26 0
2020 20.2 14.8 12 3 0
2019 18.9 8.3 15 1 0
2018 18.4 9.9 13 0 0
2017 9.5 6.3 5 1 0
2016 14.1 9.4 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · TX · Houston

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, TX · 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 0683 Downers Grove 24.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hollywood 12 24.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6365-537 24.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bakersfield - Coffee Rd #032 24.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bar-g Feedyard 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Flying A Pumping Services LLC, 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lubbock Operations 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE 112855-CPCHEM LDPE 113 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0683 Downers Grove 24.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Structural Components, Inc. 24.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Farmington Community Library 24.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 1026 Jef1000 24.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Vistar Illinois - 1005 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Charlotte Terminal 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hillcrest Nursing Center 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tampa FL Truss 113 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.