Grocery Store · Ohio

Trader Joe's 0673 Kettering

Kettering, OH · ~74 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0673 Kettering runs at 162% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade D.

Trader Joe's 0673 Kettering: 5.5 TCR = 162% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0673 Kettering safety composite

Trader Joe's 0673 Kettering scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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 0673 Kettering: 2.5 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 13.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.29× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0673 Kettering's TCR rose 2.3 from 2.5 in 2016 to 4.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 13.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Kettering, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 162% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #609/748
  • PHOTO The Fresh Market 076
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Fresh Market 076 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0673 Kettering in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0673 Kettering averages 5.5 TCR (162% 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 0673 Kettering TCR series: 2016=2.5 · 2017=2.5 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=6.5 · 2020=5.9 · 2021=5.9 · 2022=13.6 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=4.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0673 Kettering falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #609 safest of 748 Grocery Store employers in Ohio.

Trader Joe's 0673 Kettering (74 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 0673 Kettering
Trader Joe's 0673 Kettering (74 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0673 Kettering 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 4.8 1.6 3 0 0
2023 3.4 3.4 2 0 0
2022 13.6 7.7 6 1 0
2021 5.9 3.9 1 2 0
2020 5.9 5.9 1 2 0
2019 6.5 0.0 3 0 0
2018 4.5 0.0 2 0 0
2017 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2016 2.5 2.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · OH · Kettering

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 42 employers in Kettering, OH · 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 The Fresh Market 076 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Price Rite Store 361 Chicopee 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Raley's 115- Reno 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nijiya Market - SD 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE STgenetics-Ohio Heifer Center 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE kILBARGER Construction, Inc. 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steubenville Service Building 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lima Service Center 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kettering Medical Center 5,259 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3638-K 3,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASHN 1,048 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alternate Solutions 1,012 FTE
NAT-TCR SSM Rehabilitation Hospital (Richmond Heights Campus) 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Price Rite Store 361 Chicopee 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR TB2 Service Inc. DBA Aire Dynamics 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Darlington Dairy Supply 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0734 Norcross 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0736 Athens 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eurpac - Virginia Beach, Va 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE McMorran Place Arena 74 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.