Grocery Store · Massachusetts

Trader Joe's 0505 Arlington

Arlington, MA · ~65 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0505 Arlington runs at 484% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0505 Arlington: 16.5 TCR = 484% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0505 Arlington safety composite

Trader Joe's 0505 Arlington 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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 0505 Arlington: 5.4 → 25.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 57.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.71× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0505 Arlington's TCR rose 19.9 from 5.4 in 2016 to 25.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 57.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 16.5 · 484% of ind

  • DART 11.7 DART
  • RANK #833/842
  • PHOTO PERISH SHFT 2 #9909
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 54 inj
  • SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PERISH SHFT 2 #9909 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0505 Arlington in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0505 Arlington averages 16.5 TCR (484% 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 0505 Arlington TCR series: 2016=5.4 · 2017=2.6 · 2018=5 · 2019=8.6 · 2020=17.2 · 2021=22.9 · 2022=57.3 · 2023=44.8 · 2024=25.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0505 Arlington 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 #833 safest of 842 Grocery Store employers in Massachusetts.

Trader Joe's 0505 Arlington (65 employees, TCR 16.5) 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 0505 Arlington
Trader Joe's 0505 Arlington (65 employees, TCR 16.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0505 Arlington 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 25.3 11.7 13 0 0
2023 44.8 29.9 9 12 0
2022 57.3 47.3 10 13 0
2021 22.9 10.2 6 3 0
2020 17.2 7.4 7 0 0
2019 8.6 4.3 4 0 0
2018 5.0 2.5 2 0 0
2017 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2016 5.4 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MA · Arlington

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 21 employers in Arlington, 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 PERISH SHFT 2 #9909 16.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6962-SWY-0025-0025-01265 16.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Piggly Wiggly #621 16.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 415 16.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Insa Chicopee 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advanced Power 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Siena Construction Corporation 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4753_10896 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR Armstrong Ambulance Service 294 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jimmy's Steer House - Arlington 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR 10507 Arlington Center 127 FTE
CITY-NEAR MA1528-BVSL-BV ARLINGTON 127 FTE
NAT-TCR Canterbury Inn 16.5 TCR
NAT-TCR CDK - Valdosta 16.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Sheraton Hartford Hotel at Bradley Airport 16.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Janesville Wi - 3252 16.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0455 San Antonio 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ida Gold Farms LLC 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Charlie Irwin Painting, LLC 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Antlers Plus 65 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.