Grocery Store · New Jersey

Trader Joe's 0601 Westfield

Westfield, NJ · ~150 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
24.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0601 Westfield runs at 719% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0601 Westfield: 24.4 TCR = 719% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0601 Westfield safety composite

Trader Joe's 0601 Westfield 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 24.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

−4.3

2016→2024

Trader Joe's 0601 Westfield injury rate improved

Trader Joe's 0601 Westfield's TCR fell 4.3 from 32.2 in 2016 to 27.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 41.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=32.2 · 2017=14.6 · 2018=41.5 · 2019=19.4 · 2020=18.4 · 2021=25.8 · 2022=21.3 · 2023=18.9 · 2024=27.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Westfield, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 24.4 · 719% of ind

  • DART 14.8 DART
  • RANK #744/746
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0404 Fo…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 173 inj
  • SIZE ~150 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0404 Fort Worth (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0601 Westfield in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0601 Westfield averages 24.4 TCR (719% 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 0601 Westfield TCR series: 2016=32.2 · 2017=14.6 · 2018=41.5 · 2019=19.4 · 2020=18.4 · 2021=25.8 · 2022=21.3 · 2023=18.9 · 2024=27.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0601 Westfield 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 Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #744 safest of 746 Grocery Store employers in New Jersey.

Trader Joe's 0601 Westfield (150 employees, TCR 24.4) 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 0601 Westfield
Trader Joe's 0601 Westfield (150 employees, TCR 24.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0601 Westfield 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 27.8 14.8 32 0 0
2023 18.9 6.9 19 3 0
2022 21.3 11.1 19 4 0
2021 25.8 14.9 16 10 0
2020 18.4 11.6 12 7 0
2019 19.4 14.5 16 4 0
2018 41.5 32.4 40 1 0
2017 14.6 6.2 13 1 0
2016 32.2 10.7 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NJ · Westfield

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 24 employers in Westfield, 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 0404 Fort Worth 24.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0184 Chatsworth 24.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0048 Whittier 24.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0710 St. Louis Park 24.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE JBL Electric 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE Loving Pets 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE Airborne Systems NJ 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE Essentra HCP Moorestown 150 FTE
CITY-NEAR 055 - Westfield 289 FTE
CITY-NEAR Complete Care Westfield 191 FTE
CITY-NEAR Westfield Center 151 FTE
CITY-NEAR SUMMIT MEDICAL GROUP574W 129 FTE
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0404 Fort Worth 24.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Marinette Plant 24.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern Region : Beu 24.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Warner's Outdoor Solutions, Inc. 24.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oakpointe Senior Care & Rehab Center 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fiberoptics Technology, Inc. 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE Huntington 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valley Express LLC 150 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, 2017, 2016. 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.