Grocery Store · Connecticut

Trader Joe's 0522 Darien

Darien, CT · ~81 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
19.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0522 Darien runs at 576% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0522 Darien: 19.6 TCR = 576% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0522 Darien safety composite

Trader Joe's 0522 Darien scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 19.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 16.02 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 0522 Darien: 14.9 → 30.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 37.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.82× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0522 Darien's TCR rose 15.8 from 14.9 in 2016 to 30.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 37.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Darien, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 19.6 · 576% of ind

  • DART 16.0 DART
  • RANK #385/399
  • PHOTO 1652 Swn12
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 86 inj
  • SIZE ~81 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1652 Swn12 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0522 Darien in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0522 Darien averages 19.6 TCR (576% 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 0522 Darien TCR series: 2016=14.9 · 2017=10 · 2018=10.9 · 2019=12.1 · 2020=16.3 · 2021=37.2 · 2022=21.9 · 2023=22.4 · 2024=30.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0522 Darien falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #385 safest of 399 Grocery Store employers in Connecticut.

Trader Joe's 0522 Darien (81 employees, TCR 19.6) 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 0522 Darien
Trader Joe's 0522 Darien (81 employees, TCR 19.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0522 Darien 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 30.7 16.0 23 0 0
2023 22.4 7.0 16 0 0
2022 21.9 12.5 10 4 0
2021 37.2 19.4 12 11 0
2020 16.3 11.4 3 7 0
2019 12.1 12.1 5 2 0
2018 10.9 7.3 6 0 0
2017 10.0 10.0 5 0 0
2016 14.9 6.4 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CT · Darien

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 21 employers in Darien, CT · 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 1652 Swn12 19.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0630 Pittsburgh 19.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Common Market 7th Street 19.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0156 Olympia 19.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Morganti Group Inc. 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE CCL Label - Shelton 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spartech, LLC 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE PCX Aerosystems Enfield 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR 10300 Darien 239 FTE
CITY-NEAR Post 53 - Emergency Medical Services 169 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ring's End Darien 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR Noroton Fire Department 108 FTE
NAT-TCR TNN008 19.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Horst Hotels Granite Homewood Suites 19.6 TCR
NAT-TCR DEW Construction - Keene Office 19.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Las-Ground Ops 19.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0428 The Woodlands 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0406 Southlake 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0401 Dallas 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0304 Fort Collins 81 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.