Grocery Store · Vermont

Trader Joe's 0527 South Burlington

South Burlington, VT · ~105 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
21.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0527 South Burlington runs at 622% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0527 South Burlington: 21.2 TCR = 622% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0527 South Burlington safety composite

Trader Joe's 0527 South Burlington 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 21.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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 0527 South Burlington: 18.6 → 19.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 44.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.47× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0527 South Burlington's TCR rose 1.3 from 18.6 in 2016 to 19.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 44.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · South Burlington, VT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 21.2 · 622% of ind

  • DART 9.9 DART
  • RANK #134/135
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0720 Ka…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 88 inj
  • SIZE ~105 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0720 Kansas City (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0527 South Burlington in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0527 South Burlington averages 21.2 TCR (622% 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 0527 South Burlington TCR series: 2016=18.6 · 2017=21.9 · 2018=26.2 · 2019=8.4 · 2020=17.6 · 2022=44.9 · 2023=11.8 · 2024=19.9 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0527 South Burlington 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 Vermont alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #134 safest of 135 Grocery Store employers in Vermont.

Trader Joe's 0527 South Burlington (105 employees, TCR 21.2) 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 0527 South Burlington
Trader Joe's 0527 South Burlington (105 employees, TCR 21.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0527 South Burlington 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 19.9 9.9 14 2 0
2023 11.8 3.9 8 1 0
2022 44.9 37.7 14 17 0
2020 17.6 13.2 11 1 0
2019 8.4 4.2 6 0 0
2018 26.2 10.2 15 3 0
2017 21.9 11.8 10 3 0
2016 18.6 10.1 10 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · VT · South Burlington

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,065 rated employers in Vermont with headcount on file · 49 employers in South Burlington, VT · 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 0720 Kansas City 21.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABS-0030-0030-04008 FAC-04008-HELENA-MT 21.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0768 Orlando 21.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0406 Southlake 21.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Vermont Electric Cooperative, Inc. 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE Naylor & Breen Builders, Inc 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0269 - Int. Doors-Ludlow 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE 815 Machine Shop 105 FTE
CITY-NEAR Burlington VT 5,285 FTE
CITY-NEAR PC Construction Company 643 FTE
CITY-NEAR BETA Technologies, Inc 484 FTE
CITY-NEAR Farrell Distributing 215 FTE
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0720 Kansas City 21.2 TCR
NAT-TCR New Day Delivery LLC 21.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Cascadia of Boise 21.2 TCR
NAT-TCR The MC Hotel 21.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Signature Metal and Marble Maintenance, LLC 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE La Cosecha Food Service, LLC 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shine Bros Corp 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spectra Wood 105 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, 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.