Grocery Store · Massachusetts

Trader Joe's 0501 Brookline

Brookline, MA · ~185 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0501 Brookline runs at 508% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0501 Brookline: 17.3 TCR = 508% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0501 Brookline safety composite

Trader Joe's 0501 Brookline scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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 0501 Brookline: 12.3 → 22.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 33.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.44× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0501 Brookline's TCR rose 9.8 from 12.3 in 2016 to 22.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 33.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Brookline, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 17.3 · 508% of ind

  • DART 7.6 DART
  • RANK #835/842
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0245 Sa…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 149 inj
  • SIZE ~185 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0245 San Mateo (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0501 Brookline in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0501 Brookline averages 17.3 TCR (508% 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 0501 Brookline TCR series: 2016=12.3 · 2017=10.6 · 2018=15.4 · 2019=16.3 · 2020=10.2 · 2021=19.6 · 2022=33.7 · 2023=15.3 · 2024=22.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0501 Brookline falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #835 safest of 842 Grocery Store employers in Massachusetts.

Trader Joe's 0501 Brookline (185 employees, TCR 17.3) 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 0501 Brookline
Trader Joe's 0501 Brookline (185 employees, TCR 17.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0501 Brookline 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 22.1 7.6 27 2 0
2023 15.3 4.0 16 3 0
2022 33.7 23.7 14 23 0
2021 19.6 9.8 14 6 0
2020 10.2 8.5 7 5 0
2019 16.3 10.4 25 0 0
2018 15.4 13.1 18 2 0
2017 10.6 7.3 13 0 0
2016 12.3 9.8 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MA · Brookline

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 22 employers in Brookline, MA · 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 0245 San Mateo 17.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR PCC Community Markets Redmond 17.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0282 Phoenix 17.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0681 Glenview 17.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE SCHOTT North America, Inc. 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dexter Russell Southbridge 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE Belmont Instrument headquarters 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5472-NAI-0033-0033-00624 185 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brookline - MA 202 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2576-20 170 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2576-020 168 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2576-40220000-4022 168 FTE
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0245 San Mateo 17.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cargill Protein 17.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Fire Station 1 17.3 TCR
NAT-TCR SKLD Muskegon 17.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mje, LLC 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grand Rapids Wealthy Station 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE Teutopolis 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE TCCo-CT 185 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.