Grocery Store · New York

Trader Joe's 0578 Forest Hills/Queens

Forest Hills/Queens, NY · ~202 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0578 Forest Hills/Queens runs at 322% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0578 Forest Hills/Queens: 11.0 TCR = 322% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0578 Forest Hills/Queens safety composite

Trader Joe's 0578 Forest Hills/Queens scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

−7.5

2023→2024

Trader Joe's 0578 Forest Hills/Queens injury rate improved

Trader Joe's 0578 Forest Hills/Queens's TCR fell 7.5 from 14.7 in 2023 to 7.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 14.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=14.7 · 2024=7.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Forest Hills/Queens, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.0 · 322% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #1187/1322
  • PHOTO 1114 - NSM Nyberg Ri…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~202 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1114 - NSM Nyberg Rivers (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0578 Forest Hills/Queens in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0578 Forest Hills/Queens averages 11.0 TCR (322% 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 0578 Forest Hills/Queens TCR series: 2023=14.7 · 2024=7.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0578 Forest Hills/Queens falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 10% 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 #1187 safest of 1322 Grocery Store employers in New York.

Trader Joe's 0578 Forest Hills/Queens (202 employees, TCR 11.0) 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 0578 Forest Hills/Queens
Trader Joe's 0578 Forest Hills/Queens (202 employees, TCR 11.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0578 Forest Hills/Queens 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 7.2 4.0 9 0 0
2023 14.7 0.0 2 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NY · Forest Hills/Queens

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 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 1114 - NSM Nyberg Rivers 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SWY-0029-0029-02275 FAC-02275-MANHATTAN BEACH-CA 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR IL-BURBA01 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Broulim's Afton 11.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE NYSEG Binghamton Service Center 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE Robert B. Samuels Inc. 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ultra Dairy LLC 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Fort Miller Co., Inc. 202 FTE
NAT-TCR Brookdale Ontario 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Warmerdam Packing, LLC 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Echo Ridge 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR District Wide 11.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Scott Lake Health and Rehabilitation 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE SYB Construction Co., Inc. 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wakwk - Kennewick Office 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wablh - Bellingham Center 202 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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