Grocery Store · Massachusetts

Trader Joe's 0506 Saugus

Saugus, MA · ~67 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0506 Saugus runs at 264% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0506 Saugus: 9.0 TCR = 264% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0506 Saugus safety composite

Trader Joe's 0506 Saugus scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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 0506 Saugus: 5.2 → 8.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 29.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.39× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0506 Saugus's TCR rose 3.6 from 5.2 in 2016 to 8.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 29.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 264% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #732/842
  • PHOTO Berkeley Bowl West
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Berkeley Bowl West (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0506 Saugus in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0506 Saugus averages 9.0 TCR (264% 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 0506 Saugus TCR series: 2016=5.2 · 2017=0 · 2018=7.6 · 2019=4 · 2020=8.7 · 2021=2.1 · 2022=29.1 · 2023=15.5 · 2024=8.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0506 Saugus falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 16% 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 #732 safest of 842 Grocery Store employers in Massachusetts.

Trader Joe's 0506 Saugus (67 employees, TCR 9.0) 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 0506 Saugus
Trader Joe's 0506 Saugus (67 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0506 Saugus 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 8.8 3.5 5 0 0
2023 15.5 9.7 5 3 0
2022 29.1 24.6 6 7 0
2021 2.1 2.1 0 1 0
2020 8.7 8.7 1 3 0
2019 4.0 2.0 2 0 0
2018 7.6 2.5 2 1 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 5.2 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MA · Saugus

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 36 employers in Saugus, 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 Berkeley Bowl West 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Strip District Meats, Inc. 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR NAI-0034-0034-03960 FAC-03960-FREEHOLD-NJ 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southbridge 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Hyde Park Electric 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Westborough 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE JS Rae - Berkshire 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kinetic Systems Inc. Scarborough Office 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3114 307 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3114 254 FTE
CITY-NEAR Square One 226 238 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1290 - Saugus 236 FTE
NAT-TCR Innovative Industries, Inc Antigo 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 5150 Fresenius Medical Care 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Oklahoma Co Nut Program 63285 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Jacksonville Nursing and Rehab Center 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0460 Tulsa 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0281 Carson City 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0086 Las Vegas 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE NEWINGTON 67 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.