Grocery Store · Michigan

Trader Joe's 0708 Kalamazoo

Kalamazoo, MI · ~72 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
19.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0708 Kalamazoo runs at 568% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0708 Kalamazoo: 19.3 TCR = 568% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0708 Kalamazoo safety composite

Trader Joe's 0708 Kalamazoo scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 19.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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 0708 Kalamazoo: 11.1 → 16.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 31.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.25× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0708 Kalamazoo's TCR rose 4.9 from 11.1 in 2017 to 16.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 31.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Kalamazoo, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 19.3 · 568% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #529/536
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0020 La…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 50 inj
  • SIZE ~72 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0020 LaJolla (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0708 Kalamazoo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0708 Kalamazoo averages 19.3 TCR (568% 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 0708 Kalamazoo TCR series: 2017=11.1 · 2018=16.8 · 2019=6.7 · 2020=14.6 · 2021=29.8 · 2022=28.1 · 2023=31.1 · 2024=16.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0708 Kalamazoo falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #529 safest of 536 Grocery Store employers in Michigan.

Trader Joe's 0708 Kalamazoo (72 employees, TCR 19.3) 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 0708 Kalamazoo
Trader Joe's 0708 Kalamazoo (72 employees, TCR 19.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0708 Kalamazoo 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 16.1 4.8 9 1 0
2023 31.1 20.7 9 9 0
2022 28.1 22.5 7 8 0
2021 29.8 15.9 8 7 0
2020 14.6 4.2 5 2 0
2019 6.7 2.2 2 1 0
2018 16.8 10.5 8 0 0
2017 11.1 5.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MI · Kalamazoo

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 353 employers in Kalamazoo, MI · 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 0020 LaJolla 19.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1029 19.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aalo Foods 19.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR WM 5602 19.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Driven Grow LLC 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elite Apple Company, LLC 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lynn Mayer's Great Lakes Glads, Inc. 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Navitas House 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bronson Methodist Hospital 4,909 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pfizer Kalamazoo - Portage Road 3,201 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stryker Instruments 2,240 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-MIKAL1 2,103 FTE
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0020 LaJolla 19.3 TCR
NAT-TCR San Diego Police Department - Headquarters 19.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Wakefield Care and Rehab. 19.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1029 19.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Care and Rehab- Cumberland 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tremonton 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0009 Modesto 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Annandale High School 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.