Grocery Store · New Jersey

Trader Joe's 0607 Princeton

Princeton, NJ · ~149 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0607 Princeton runs at 498% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0607 Princeton: 16.9 TCR = 498% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0607 Princeton safety composite

Trader Joe's 0607 Princeton scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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 0607 Princeton: 12.7 → 13.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 36.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.44× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0607 Princeton's TCR rose 0.4 from 12.7 in 2016 to 13.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 36.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 16.9 · 498% of ind

  • DART 7.5 DART
  • RANK #719/746
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0659 Gl…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 100 inj
  • SIZE ~149 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0659 Glen Allen (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0607 Princeton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0607 Princeton averages 16.9 TCR (498% 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 0607 Princeton TCR series: 2016=12.7 · 2017=14.6 · 2018=12 · 2019=19.6 · 2020=15.5 · 2021=36.7 · 2022=16.1 · 2023=11.9 · 2024=13.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0607 Princeton falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 3% 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 #719 safest of 746 Grocery Store employers in New Jersey.

Trader Joe's 0607 Princeton (149 employees, TCR 16.9) 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 0607 Princeton
Trader Joe's 0607 Princeton (149 employees, TCR 16.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0607 Princeton 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 13.1 7.5 13 1 0
2023 11.9 7.3 10 3 0
2022 16.1 12.1 7 9 0
2021 36.7 29.8 10 22 0
2020 15.5 13.3 9 5 0
2019 19.6 10.8 20 0 0
2018 12.0 7.6 9 2 0
2017 14.6 12.5 11 3 0
2016 12.7 4.9 11 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NJ · Princeton

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 99 employers in Princeton, 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 0659 Glen Allen 16.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2545 Web96 16.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rosara Investments, LLC EA#01 16.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6400-SWY-0025-0025-01210 16.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE EE-Culver Road CSC 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE HBSHSENJ11 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE Horizon Services - NJ 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spice Chain Corp. 149 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bristol Myers Squibb Company US Field Sales PPk 2,100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. (OAPI) 2,094 FTE
CITY-NEAR Princeton Pike 1,963 FTE
CITY-NEAR EIC - Power 1,895 FTE
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0659 Glen Allen 16.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Atmore Nursing Center 16.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Harbor Fish Market 16.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Calvert Internal Medicine 16.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trombley Service Center 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE Austin & El Paso CSC and Hospitals 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE Minneapolis Office 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE SCA-Victorville Office 0012-FAC01 149 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.