Grocery Store · New York

Trader Joe's 0538 New York

New York, NY · ~186 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
24.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0538 New York runs at 712% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0538 New York: 24.2 TCR = 712% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0538 New York safety composite

Trader Joe's 0538 New York 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 24.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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 0538 New York: 3.3 → 20.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 46.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.36× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0538 New York's TCR rose 17.4 from 3.3 in 2018 to 20.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 46.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · New York, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 24.2 · 712% of ind

  • DART 8.7 DART
  • RANK #1313/1322
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0556 La…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 97 inj
  • SIZE ~186 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0556 Lake Grove (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0538 New York in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0538 New York averages 24.2 TCR (712% 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 0538 New York TCR series: 2018=3.3 · 2019=13.4 · 2020=19.9 · 2021=41.5 · 2022=46.1 · 2023=24.4 · 2024=20.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0538 New York 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 New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1313 safest of 1322 Grocery Store employers in New York.

Trader Joe's 0538 New York (186 employees, TCR 24.2) 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 051015202530 Average employees Total Case Rate Trader Joe's 0538 New York
Trader Joe's 0538 New York (186 employees, TCR 24.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0538 New York 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 20.8 8.7 23 1 0
2023 24.4 13.1 21 7 0
2022 46.1 37.8 15 35 0
2021 41.5 39.6 8 35 0
2020 19.9 14.0 13 7 0
2019 13.4 8.3 15 1 0
2018 3.3 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NY · New York

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 1,952 employers in New York, NY · 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 0556 Lake Grove 24.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seafood City Supermarket - Irvine 24.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0350 Salt Lake City 24.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 50/55/60 - Warehouse / NMK 24.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE American Specialties 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crisafulli Bros. Plumbing & Heating 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aabco Sheet Metal Co 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Creative Food Ingredients 186 FTE
CITY-NEAR NYU Grossman School of Medicine 16,280 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Hospital Corporation (MEM) 14,781 FTE
CITY-NEAR NYU Langone Hospitals 12,389 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mount Sinai Medical Center 11,845 FTE
NAT-TCR City Of Meriden Fire Department Engine #3 24.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Kuhn Employment Opportunities, Inc 24.2 TCR
NAT-TCR A Super T LLC 24.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Public Works and Facilities 24.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Plymouth Production 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central city labor 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bergelectric Corp. NV 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE Regal - Home CA 186 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.