Grocery Store · Massachusetts

Trader Joe's 0502 Cambridge

Cambridge, MA · ~87 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0502 Cambridge runs at 321% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0502 Cambridge: 10.9 TCR = 321% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0502 Cambridge safety composite

Trader Joe's 0502 Cambridge scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.2

2016→2024

Trader Joe's 0502 Cambridge injury rate improved

Trader Joe's 0502 Cambridge's TCR fell 1.2 from 7.2 in 2016 to 6.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 35.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.2 · 2017=6.6 · 2018=1.9 · 2019=7.4 · 2020=10.6 · 2021=16.3 · 2022=35.7 · 2023=6.4 · 2024=6.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Cambridge, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.9 · 321% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #792/842
  • PHOTO Food 4 Less - Salinas
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 38 inj
  • SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Food 4 Less - Salinas (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0502 Cambridge in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0502 Cambridge averages 10.9 TCR (321% 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 0502 Cambridge TCR series: 2016=7.2 · 2017=6.6 · 2018=1.9 · 2019=7.4 · 2020=10.6 · 2021=16.3 · 2022=35.7 · 2023=6.4 · 2024=6 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0502 Cambridge falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 10% 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 #792 safest of 842 Grocery Store employers in Massachusetts.

Trader Joe's 0502 Cambridge (87 employees, TCR 10.9) 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 0502 Cambridge
Trader Joe's 0502 Cambridge (87 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0502 Cambridge 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 6.0 4.5 4 0 0
2023 6.4 4.8 4 0 0
2022 35.7 19.6 7 13 0
2021 16.3 16.3 4 5 0
2020 10.6 8.8 4 2 0
2019 7.4 5.9 5 0 0
2018 1.9 0.0 1 0 0
2017 6.6 5.3 5 0 0
2016 7.2 4.8 4 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MA · Cambridge

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 149 employers in Cambridge, 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 Food 4 Less - Salinas 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6400-SWY-0005-0005-01656 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 090-00404 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR WEB 31 10.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Construction Management & Builders, Inc. 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE D'Allessandro Corp. 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE B-G Mechanical Contractors, Inc. 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE North shore mechanical contractors 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR Philips NAM Field Sales & Service 5,136 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vinfen Corporation 2,662 FTE
CITY-NEAR Biogen - Cambridge 2,478 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cambridge Campus 2,473 FTE
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Norman Public Schools 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Riverside Plant #1 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Bernie J Buchner Inc 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Vortex Industries - SEA 10.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Manfredi 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Specialized Professional Services, Inc 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vistar Northwest - 1007 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scioto Ready Mix 87 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.