Grocery Store · Maryland

Trader Joe's 0648 Gaithersburg

Gaithersburg, MD · ~72 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0648 Gaithersburg runs at 376% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0648 Gaithersburg: 12.8 TCR = 376% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0648 Gaithersburg safety composite

Trader Joe's 0648 Gaithersburg scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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).

D

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

−1.2

2017→2019

Trader Joe's 0648 Gaithersburg injury rate improved

Trader Joe's 0648 Gaithersburg's TCR fell 1.2 from 11.9 in 2017 to 10.7 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 15.8 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=11.9 · 2018=15.8 · 2019=10.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Gaithersburg, MD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.8 · 376% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #761/806
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0155 Me…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~72 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0155 Medford (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0648 Gaithersburg in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0648 Gaithersburg averages 12.8 TCR (376% 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 0648 Gaithersburg TCR series: 2017=11.9 · 2018=15.8 · 2019=10.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0648 Gaithersburg falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #761 safest of 806 Grocery Store employers in Maryland.

Trader Joe's 0648 Gaithersburg (72 employees, TCR 12.8) 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 0648 Gaithersburg
Trader Joe's 0648 Gaithersburg (72 employees, TCR 12.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0648 Gaithersburg 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
2019 10.7 0.0 7 0 0
2018 15.8 9.8 6 2 0
2017 11.9 11.9 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MD · Gaithersburg

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 202 employers in Gaithersburg, MD · 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 0155 Medford 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rancho San Miguel - Lodi 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6400-SWY-0024-0024-03444 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 100579 12.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 16604 Norbeck Farm Drive, Olney, MD, 20832 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nations Roof MidAtlantic LLC 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE TK Elevator Baltimore 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE LGC Clinical Diagnostics, Inc. MD 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR AstraZeneca Gaithersburg Campus 4,117 FTE
CITY-NEAR MDGAI - GAITHERSBURG HUB 794 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adventist Healthcare Support Center to SGMC 764 FTE
CITY-NEAR MDGAI - GAITHERSBURG-PACKAGE CENTER 759 FTE
NAT-TCR Victory Services Harrisburg 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : DEN3 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Pacesetter Roadside Assistance 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Elms Haven Center 12.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Baton Rouge General Bluebonnet -Transport 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stericycle Environmental Solutions - Providence,RI 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eversource - Bow 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Troy #010 72 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.