Grocery Store · New Jersey

Trader Joe's 0603 Wayne

Wayne, NJ · ~96 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0603 Wayne runs at 351% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0603 Wayne: 11.9 TCR = 351% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0603 Wayne safety composite

Trader Joe's 0603 Wayne scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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 11.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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 0603 Wayne: 6.8 → 12.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 26.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.31× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0603 Wayne's TCR rose 5.4 from 6.8 in 2016 to 12.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 26.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 11.9 · 351% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #658/746
  • PHOTO Jimo's Naturally Del…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 51 inj
  • SIZE ~96 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jimo's Naturally Del Mar (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0603 Wayne in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0603 Wayne averages 11.9 TCR (351% 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 0603 Wayne TCR series: 2016=6.8 · 2017=10.7 · 2018=4 · 2019=12.8 · 2020=3.1 · 2021=26.7 · 2022=20.9 · 2023=10 · 2024=12.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0603 Wayne falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 8% 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 #658 safest of 746 Grocery Store employers in New Jersey.

Trader Joe's 0603 Wayne (96 employees, TCR 11.9) 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 0603 Wayne
Trader Joe's 0603 Wayne (96 employees, TCR 11.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0603 Wayne 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 12.3 3.7 10 0 0
2023 10.0 2.5 6 2 0
2022 20.9 10.4 11 5 0
2021 26.7 21.3 5 15 0
2020 3.1 1.6 2 0 0
2019 12.8 7.3 7 0 0
2018 4.0 4.0 2 0 0
2017 10.7 8.5 5 0 0
2016 6.8 4.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NJ · Wayne

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 120 employers in Wayne, 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 Jimo's Naturally Del Mar 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 8173 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1074 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1117 11.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE South Jersey Gas: Glassboro 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - New Jersey 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2453-00060248-60248E 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE BWay - Trenton 96 FTE
CITY-NEAR main facility 2,237 FTE
CITY-NEAR Getinge USA Sales, LLC - One Geoffrey Way 1,062 FTE
CITY-NEAR DSV Solutions WYN 847 FTE
CITY-NEAR BAE Systems Electronic Systems WNJ 742 FTE
NAT-TCR Wentz & Patrick Construction Co., Inc. 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The Springs at Greer Gardens 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Glen Daniel Go-Mart 102 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Evans Glass Company 11.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0672 Dublin 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0690 Naperville 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0702 Evanston 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0760 Jacksonville Beach 96 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.