Grocery Store · Connecticut

Trader Joe's 0563 Manchester

Manchester, CT · ~91 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
20.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0563 Manchester runs at 589% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0563 Manchester: 20.0 TCR = 589% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0563 Manchester safety composite

Trader Joe's 0563 Manchester 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 20.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.59 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 0563 Manchester: 12.6 → 27.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 31.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.78× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0563 Manchester's TCR rose 14.7 from 12.6 in 2018 to 27.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 31.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 20.0 · 589% of ind

  • DART 15.6 DART
  • RANK #386/399
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0042 La…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 56 inj
  • SIZE ~91 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0042 La Canada (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0563 Manchester in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0563 Manchester averages 20.0 TCR (589% 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 0563 Manchester TCR series: 2018=12.6 · 2019=20.9 · 2020=11.9 · 2021=21.6 · 2022=31.7 · 2023=14.1 · 2024=27.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0563 Manchester 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 #386 safest of 399 Grocery Store employers in Connecticut.

Trader Joe's 0563 Manchester (91 employees, TCR 20.0) 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 0563 Manchester
Trader Joe's 0563 Manchester (91 employees, TCR 20.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0563 Manchester 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 27.3 15.6 14 0 0
2023 14.1 3.5 7 1 0
2022 31.7 21.2 13 5 0
2021 21.6 12.6 5 7 0
2020 11.9 8.0 4 2 0
2019 20.9 8.3 10 0 0
2018 12.6 3.1 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CT · Manchester

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 145 employers in Manchester, 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 Trader Joe's 0042 La Canada 20.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR BAT 81 20.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0162 Bellevue 20.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR VAL 37 20.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Clinton Nurseries 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE HP Hood Ice Cream Division 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Leed Himmel Industries 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR Manchester Memorial Hospital 1,652 FTE
CITY-NEAR 235 MANCHESTER CT 412 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1891 387 FTE
CITY-NEAR Home Office 381 FTE
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0042 La Canada 20.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Manke Lumber Company - Sumner 20.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Fayette Emergency Medical Service 20.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pepe Ganga Mayaguez 20.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0619 Ashburn 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE SA Recycling Decatur 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Dcps Cluster 2 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Flagler Hospital Food 91 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.