Grocery Store · Connecticut

Trader Joe's 0524 Orange

Orange, CT · ~112 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
29.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0524 Orange runs at 862% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0524 Orange: 29.3 TCR = 862% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0524 Orange safety composite

Trader Joe's 0524 Orange scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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 29.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

−4.5

2016→2024

Trader Joe's 0524 Orange injury rate improved

Trader Joe's 0524 Orange's TCR fell 4.5 from 30.8 in 2016 to 26.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 44.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=30.8 · 2017=20.4 · 2018=28.4 · 2019=44.0 · 2020=29.8 · 2021=37.7 · 2022=23.0 · 2023=23.4 · 2024=26.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Orange, CT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 29.3 · 862% of ind

  • DART 10.5 DART
  • RANK #399/399
  • PHOTO Trig's Eagle River
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 185 inj
  • SIZE ~112 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trig's Eagle River (0.2 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0524 Orange in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0524 Orange averages 29.3 TCR (862% 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 0524 Orange TCR series: 2016=30.8 · 2017=20.4 · 2018=28.4 · 2019=44 · 2020=29.8 · 2021=37.7 · 2022=23 · 2023=23.4 · 2024=26.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0524 Orange falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 0% 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 #399 safest of 399 Grocery Store employers in Connecticut.

Trader Joe's 0524 Orange (112 employees, TCR 29.3) 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 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Trader Joe's 0524 Orange
Trader Joe's 0524 Orange (112 employees, TCR 29.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0524 Orange has more 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 26.3 10.5 25 0 0
2023 23.4 15.2 19 1 0
2022 23.0 20.3 11 6 0
2021 37.7 26.0 21 8 0
2020 29.8 18.1 22 1 0
2019 44.0 35.7 37 0 0
2018 28.4 14.2 21 1 0
2017 20.4 11.7 12 2 0
2016 30.8 15.4 17 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CT · Orange

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 60 employers in Orange, 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 Trig's Eagle River 29.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0054 Toluca Lake 29.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR FRE 15 29.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR FRE 52 29.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sarracco Mechanical Waterbury 01 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE GRAND AVENUE 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE International Paper-Putnam,CT 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stewart EFI CT 112 FTE
CITY-NEAR UIL/United Illuminating 877 FTE
CITY-NEAR United Illuminating 689 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southern Connecticut Gas Company-Orange 305 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southern Connecticut Gas 301 FTE
NAT-TCR Petersburg Ofc/Whse 29.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Catalyst Consulting & Logistics 29.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Springfield Food 29.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cheyenne 215 29.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0516 Peabody 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE USA OH Grove City Plant 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Campbell's Auto Express 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Naples Community Hospital 112 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.