Grocery Store · Massachusetts

Trader Joe's 0517 Cambridge

Cambridge, MA · ~86 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0517 Cambridge runs at 555% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0517 Cambridge: 18.9 TCR = 555% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0517 Cambridge safety composite

Trader Joe's 0517 Cambridge 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 18.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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 0517 Cambridge: 4.8 → 31.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 37.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.84× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0517 Cambridge's TCR rose 27.0 from 4.8 in 2016 to 31.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 37.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 18.9 · 555% of ind

  • DART 15.9 DART
  • RANK #839/842
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0660 Vi…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 79 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0660 Virginia Beach (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0517 Cambridge in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0517 Cambridge averages 18.9 TCR (555% 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 0517 Cambridge TCR series: 2016=4.8 · 2017=13.1 · 2018=12 · 2019=14 · 2020=8.8 · 2021=12.7 · 2022=37.3 · 2023=35.5 · 2024=31.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0517 Cambridge 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 #839 safest of 842 Grocery Store employers in Massachusetts.

Trader Joe's 0517 Cambridge (86 employees, TCR 18.9) 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 0517 Cambridge
Trader Joe's 0517 Cambridge (86 employees, TCR 18.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0517 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 31.8 15.9 22 0 0
2023 35.5 13.5 21 0 0
2022 37.3 29.8 7 13 0
2021 12.7 7.3 3 4 0
2020 8.8 5.3 5 0 0
2019 14.0 7.8 9 0 0
2018 12.0 10.3 5 2 0
2017 13.1 3.3 5 3 0
2016 4.8 0.0 2 1 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 Trader Joe's 0660 Virginia Beach 18.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0135 Seattle 18.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR California Super Market #2 18.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0167 Albuquerque 18.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE 871-NiSource-Springfield MA-Cust Op Ctr 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE RRSC Boston 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Milltown Plumbing & Heating, Inc. 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spence & Company 86 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 Trader Joe's 0660 Virginia Beach 18.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0135 Seattle 18.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Diversity Vuteq, LLC 18.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Top en Twel LLC 18.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE HENDERSONVILLE 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grand Prairie Blown Films 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Monaca Operations 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE JLG - Molly 86 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.