Grocery Store · Massachusetts

Trader Joe's 0510 Boston

Boston, MA · ~71 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0510 Boston runs at 546% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0510 Boston: 18.6 TCR = 546% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0510 Boston safety composite

Trader Joe's 0510 Boston 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

−6.9

2016→2024

Trader Joe's 0510 Boston injury rate improved

Trader Joe's 0510 Boston's TCR fell 6.9 from 25.8 in 2016 to 18.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 35.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=25.8 · 2017=6.8 · 2018=25.5 · 2019=13.5 · 2020=11.1 · 2021=11.8 · 2022=35.5 · 2023=18.3 · 2024=18.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 18.6 · 546% of ind

  • DART 14.1 DART
  • RANK #838/842
  • PHOTO 1202 - NLCM Capitola
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 51 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1202 - NLCM Capitola (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0510 Boston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0510 Boston averages 18.6 TCR (546% 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 0510 Boston TCR series: 2016=25.8 · 2017=6.8 · 2018=25.5 · 2019=13.5 · 2020=11.1 · 2021=11.8 · 2022=35.5 · 2023=18.3 · 2024=18.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0510 Boston 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 #838 safest of 842 Grocery Store employers in Massachusetts.

Trader Joe's 0510 Boston (71 employees, TCR 18.6) 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 0510 Boston
Trader Joe's 0510 Boston (71 employees, TCR 18.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0510 Boston 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 18.8 14.1 4 4 0
2023 18.3 6.8 5 3 0
2022 35.5 24.6 5 8 0
2021 11.8 8.8 1 3 0
2020 11.1 5.5 3 1 0
2019 13.5 0.0 7 0 0
2018 25.5 10.6 12 0 0
2017 6.8 4.5 3 0 0
2016 25.8 7.0 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MA · Boston

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 577 employers in Boston, 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 1202 - NLCM Capitola 18.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 287 18.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Yummy.com WeHo 18.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bristol Farms Newport Beach 18.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE OW NA 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eversource - New Bedford Gas 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE J&J CONTRACTORS, INC. 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fred DeRoma & Son, Inc 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR Massachusetts General Hospital 26,855 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brigham and Women's Hospital 19,183 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brigham and Womens Hospital 19,004 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brigham & Women's Hospital 18,260 FTE
NAT-TCR Symphony at Olmstead Falls 18.6 TCR
NAT-TCR McCoys Building Supply-Longview 18.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sussex Construction Inc 18.6 TCR
NAT-TCR McCoys Building Supply-Belton 18.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Galena Park Liquids Office 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Boston Division 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jack Hilliard Distributing Co., Inc - Bryan 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Transportation : Fleet Drivers 71 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.