Grocery Store · Texas

Trader Joe's 0452 Austin

Austin, TX · ~75 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
22.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0452 Austin runs at 661% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0452 Austin: 22.5 TCR = 661% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0452 Austin safety composite

Trader Joe's 0452 Austin 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 22.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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 0452 Austin: 18.2 → 19.2 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 45.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.46× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0452 Austin's TCR rose 1.0 from 18.2 in 2016 to 19.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 45.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 22.5 · 661% of ind

  • DART 10.3 DART
  • RANK #1894/1899
  • PHOTO Edmonds #136
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 69 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Edmonds #136 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0452 Austin in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0452 Austin averages 22.5 TCR (661% 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 0452 Austin TCR series: 2016=18.2 · 2017=8.4 · 2018=15.2 · 2019=23.6 · 2020=21.4 · 2021=27.4 · 2022=45.9 · 2023=22.7 · 2024=19.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0452 Austin 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 Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1894 safest of 1899 Grocery Store employers in Texas.

Trader Joe's 0452 Austin (75 employees, TCR 22.5) 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Trader Joe's 0452 Austin
Trader Joe's 0452 Austin (75 employees, TCR 22.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0452 Austin 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 19.2 10.3 12 1 0
2023 22.7 18.2 6 9 0
2022 45.9 28.2 9 17 0
2021 27.4 16.5 6 9 0
2020 21.4 14.3 8 4 0
2019 23.6 13.5 11 3 0
2018 15.2 3.8 6 2 0
2017 8.4 4.2 3 1 0
2016 18.2 4.6 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · TX · Austin

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 1,645 employers in Austin, 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 Edmonds #136 22.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0254 Calabasas 22.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0015 Riverside 22.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Huntington Beach 2 22.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Crownover Farms dba Lone Star Family Farms 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Village farms Marfa 1 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rice, TX 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE CACTUS OPERATING 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ensign Services 11,325 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-TX-Austin-Giga Texas 8,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6017-Loc: CORP LOC - US Austin 6,911 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6017-CORP LOC - USA UNITED STATES - AST 5,272 FTE
NAT-TCR Del City Nursing Center, LLC dba Mid-Del Skilled Nursing and Therapy 22.5 TCR
NAT-TCR PR and Mkt Foundation Home Health Hospice 22.5 TCR
NAT-TCR HG1038 22.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Pine Kirk Care Center 22.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0093 Tempe 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Whitehouse 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Barrington Pools, Inc. 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE La Mesa CA Home Center 75 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.