Grocery Store · Texas

Trader Joe's 0431 Houston

Houston, TX · ~45 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0431 Houston runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade D.

Trader Joe's 0431 Houston: 6.1 TCR = 178% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0431 Houston safety composite

Trader Joe's 0431 Houston scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.38 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 0431 Houston: 5.8 → 14.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 17.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.55× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0431 Houston's TCR rose 8.3 from 5.8 in 2016 to 14.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 17.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 178% of ind

  • DART 9.4 DART
  • RANK #1399/1899
  • PHOTO CIDRA
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CIDRA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0431 Houston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0431 Houston averages 6.1 TCR (178% 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 0431 Houston TCR series: 2016=5.8 · 2017=17.2 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=7.5 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=14.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0431 Houston falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 33% 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 #1399 safest of 1899 Grocery Store employers in Texas.

Trader Joe's 0431 Houston (45 employees, TCR 6.1) 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 0431 Houston
Trader Joe's 0431 Houston (45 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0431 Houston 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 14.1 9.4 6 0 0
2023 4.8 2.4 2 0 0
2022 7.5 7.5 0 3 0
2021 2.6 0.0 1 0 0
2020 2.6 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 17.2 13.8 5 0 0
2016 5.8 0.0 1 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 CIDRA 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Fresh Market 138 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grocery Outlet-Oakland 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10092 Newtonville 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Coronado Feeders 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE FireBird Energy LLC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Admiral Permian Resources 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cougar Completion Services LP 45 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 Conway SC Yard 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Palm Beach Metal, Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR PVS (Paxton Vierling Steel) Structures 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sanderson Farms Kinston Processing 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wilkes Barre 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Landmark Construction Group, Inc. 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE CTE, Inc. 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Moog, Inc. - Galax 45 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.