Grocery Store · New Jersey

Trader Joe's 0612 North Brunswick

North Brunswick, NJ · ~97 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0612 North Brunswick runs at 520% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0612 North Brunswick: 17.7 TCR = 520% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0612 North Brunswick safety composite

Trader Joe's 0612 North Brunswick scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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 17.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

−13.6

2017→2024

Trader Joe's 0612 North Brunswick injury rate improved

Trader Joe's 0612 North Brunswick's TCR fell 13.6 from 22.2 in 2017 to 8.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 28.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=22.2 · 2018=10.9 · 2019=10.4 · 2020=16.3 · 2021=28.0 · 2022=24.0 · 2023=20.9 · 2024=8.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · North Brunswick, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.7 · 520% of ind

  • DART 7.2 DART
  • RANK #724/746
  • PHOTO 69030002-13 CARDENAS…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 54 inj
  • SIZE ~97 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 69030002-13 CARDENAS MARKETS 213 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0612 North Brunswick in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0612 North Brunswick averages 17.7 TCR (520% 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 0612 North Brunswick TCR series: 2017=22.2 · 2018=10.9 · 2019=10.4 · 2020=16.3 · 2021=28 · 2022=24 · 2023=20.9 · 2024=8.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0612 North Brunswick falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 2% 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 #724 safest of 746 Grocery Store employers in New Jersey.

Trader Joe's 0612 North Brunswick (97 employees, TCR 17.7) 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 0612 North Brunswick
Trader Joe's 0612 North Brunswick (97 employees, TCR 17.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0612 North Brunswick 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 8.6 7.2 4 2 0
2023 20.9 9.7 10 5 0
2022 24.0 10.5 12 4 0
2021 28.0 18.1 7 10 0
2020 16.3 6.5 7 3 0
2019 10.4 8.7 6 0 0
2018 10.9 7.3 5 1 0
2017 22.2 22.2 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NJ · North Brunswick

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 65 employers in North Brunswick, 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 69030002-13 CARDENAS MARKETS 213 17.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2050-338 17.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0210 Irvine 17.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bristol Farms - 007 - BF Newport Beach 17.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE NJ Haworth 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Donnelly Industries Inc. 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Infrastructure Repair Service 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mile Square Roofing Co,. Inc. 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR SilverLine - North Brunswick 1,676 FTE
CITY-NEAR Silver Line Building Products LLC 1,286 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2003 401 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2003 393 FTE
NAT-TCR Fences Unlimited Inc 17.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Rentex Inc. Union City 17.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Finger Lakes Extrusion 17.7 TCR
NAT-TCR South Plains Community Action Association, Inc. 17.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0658 Elkridge 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fife 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Indio 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0028 San Dimas 97 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.