Grocery Store · New Jersey

Trader Joe's 0614 Bridgewater

Bridgewater, NJ · ~91 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0614 Bridgewater runs at 525% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0614 Bridgewater: 17.9 TCR = 525% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0614 Bridgewater safety composite

Trader Joe's 0614 Bridgewater 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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 0614 Bridgewater: 10.5 → 18.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 26.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.59× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0614 Bridgewater's TCR rose 7.5 from 10.5 in 2019 to 18.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 26.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 17.9 · 525% of ind

  • DART 10.5 DART
  • RANK #725/746
  • PHOTO 1381 Fre17
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 43 inj
  • SIZE ~91 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1381 Fre17 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0614 Bridgewater in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0614 Bridgewater averages 17.9 TCR (525% 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 0614 Bridgewater TCR series: 2019=10.5 · 2020=16.2 · 2021=26.6 · 2022=21.3 · 2023=14.7 · 2024=18 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0614 Bridgewater 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 #725 safest of 746 Grocery Store employers in New Jersey.

Trader Joe's 0614 Bridgewater (91 employees, TCR 17.9) 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 0614 Bridgewater
Trader Joe's 0614 Bridgewater (91 employees, TCR 17.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0614 Bridgewater 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 18.0 10.5 12 0 0
2023 14.7 5.9 9 1 0
2022 21.3 19.6 4 9 0
2021 26.6 15.9 8 7 0
2020 16.2 14.4 7 2 0
2019 10.5 10.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NJ · Bridgewater

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 101 employers in Bridgewater, 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 1381 Fre17 17.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR FAR 89 17.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2762 Swn11 17.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0631 Marlton 17.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Linde-Griffith Construction Co. 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE IMS Pet Industries 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Axeon Specialty Products - Paulsboro Refinery 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Guardian Drug Co., Inc. 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sanofi Bridgewater Office 3,173 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sanofi Sales 2,300 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sanofi US Services Inc. 2,233 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bridgewater - Bausch Health 1,569 FTE
NAT-TCR 0579 - Wilton NY DC 17.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hopkins Center 17.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 516430-Nwp-Warwick Sta 17.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 266326-Min-Nokomis Sta 17.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Midwest Roofing-Sheet Metal 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE AG Group LLC 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Burbank - Library Administration 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Accraply, LLC 91 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. 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.