Grocery Store · Massachusetts

Trader Joe's 0504 Needham Hts

Needham Hts, MA · ~89 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0504 Needham Hts runs at 469% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0504 Needham Hts: 15.9 TCR = 469% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0504 Needham Hts safety composite

Trader Joe's 0504 Needham Hts scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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 0504 Needham Hts: 6.1 → 20.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 21.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.61× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0504 Needham Hts's TCR rose 14.7 from 6.1 in 2016 to 20.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 21.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Needham Hts, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.9 · 469% of ind

  • DART 9.7 DART
  • RANK #831/842
  • PHOTO 6962-SWY-0029-0029-0…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 78 inj
  • SIZE ~89 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 6962-SWY-0029-0029-02107 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0504 Needham Hts in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0504 Needham Hts averages 15.9 TCR (469% 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 0504 Needham Hts TCR series: 2016=6.1 · 2017=17.8 · 2018=18.3 · 2019=20.2 · 2020=7.1 · 2021=14.8 · 2022=21.9 · 2023=16.4 · 2024=20.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0504 Needham Hts falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 3% 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 #831 safest of 842 Grocery Store employers in Massachusetts.

Trader Joe's 0504 Needham Hts (89 employees, TCR 15.9) 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 0504 Needham Hts
Trader Joe's 0504 Needham Hts (89 employees, TCR 15.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0504 Needham Hts 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 20.8 9.7 15 0 0
2023 16.4 8.2 8 2 0
2022 21.9 5.5 10 2 0
2021 14.8 3.7 8 0 0
2020 7.1 3.6 4 0 0
2019 20.2 11.8 12 0 0
2018 18.3 14.6 9 1 0
2017 17.8 11.9 9 0 0
2016 6.1 4.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MA · Needham Hts

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 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 6962-SWY-0029-0029-02107 15.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR VAL 31 15.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6400-SWY-0005-0005-01681 15.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5472-NAI-0033-0033-04651 15.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1-EMP-Billerica 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shire - Milford MA 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sealed Air 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bixby International Corp 89 FTE
NAT-TCR Lannon Tank Company 15.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hermitage Farm 15.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Edgewood Wtn MC 15.9 TCR
NAT-TCR SEM Haven 15.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0305 Colorado Springs 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0146 Portland 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE College Hill Water Treatment Plant 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vistar Michigan - 1015 89 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.