Grocery Store · New Jersey

Trader Joe's 0590 Freehold

Freehold, NJ · ~79 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
20.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0590 Freehold runs at 597% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0590 Freehold: 20.3 TCR = 597% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0590 Freehold safety composite

Trader Joe's 0590 Freehold 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 20.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

−16.6

2020→2024

Trader Joe's 0590 Freehold injury rate improved

Trader Joe's 0590 Freehold's TCR fell 16.6 from 25.1 in 2020 to 8.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 28.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=25.1 · 2021=22.5 · 2022=28.3 · 2023=17.2 · 2024=8.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Freehold, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 20.3 · 597% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #739/746
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0526 We…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0526 West Hartford (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0590 Freehold in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0590 Freehold averages 20.3 TCR (597% 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 0590 Freehold TCR series: 2020=25.1 · 2021=22.5 · 2022=28.3 · 2023=17.2 · 2024=8.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0590 Freehold 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 New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #739 safest of 746 Grocery Store employers in New Jersey.

Trader Joe's 0590 Freehold (79 employees, TCR 20.3) 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Trader Joe's 0590 Freehold
Trader Joe's 0590 Freehold (79 employees, TCR 20.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0590 Freehold 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 8.5 3.4 5 0 0
2023 17.2 12.0 10 0 0
2022 28.3 22.2 11 3 0
2021 22.5 13.1 5 7 0
2020 25.1 10.0 3 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NJ · Freehold

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 82 employers in Freehold, NJ · 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 0526 West Hartford 20.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bristol Farms - 003 - BF Manhattan Beach 20.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Papaya 20.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6400-SWY-0005-0005-01438 20.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ivy Acres - NJ 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Jersey Warehouse 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE DeSesa Engineering Company, Inc 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Headquarters 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR CentraState Medical Center 1,962 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3236 314 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3236 301 FTE
CITY-NEAR IPLAY 291 FTE
NAT-TCR BK Welding, Inc 20.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Accura HealthCare of Carroll 20.3 TCR
NAT-TCR ECP - Ground Ops 20.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Open Systems Healthcare - Wilmington 20.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 5105 - DC East 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE SP Industries, Inc. Gardiner, New York 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Richfield 122 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cortec Corporation 79 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. 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.