Grocery Store · Minnesota

Trader Joe's 0718 Rochester

Rochester, MN · ~76 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
20.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0718 Rochester runs at 602% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0718 Rochester: 20.5 TCR = 602% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0718 Rochester safety composite

Trader Joe's 0718 Rochester 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 20.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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 0718 Rochester: 2.5 → 22.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 42.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0718 Rochester's TCR rose 19.9 from 2.5 in 2017 to 22.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 42.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Rochester, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 20.5 · 602% of ind

  • DART 13.8 DART
  • RANK #321/327
  • PHOTO Moscow #029
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 52 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Moscow #029 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0718 Rochester in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0718 Rochester averages 20.5 TCR (602% 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 0718 Rochester TCR series: 2017=2.5 · 2018=14.6 · 2019=12 · 2020=13.5 · 2021=27.5 · 2022=42.7 · 2023=28.4 · 2024=22.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0718 Rochester 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 Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #321 safest of 327 Grocery Store employers in Minnesota.

Trader Joe's 0718 Rochester (76 employees, TCR 20.5) 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 0718 Rochester
Trader Joe's 0718 Rochester (76 employees, TCR 20.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0718 Rochester 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 22.4 13.8 11 2 0
2023 28.4 21.3 8 8 0
2022 42.7 36.6 9 12 0
2021 27.5 19.7 7 7 0
2020 13.5 4.5 6 0 0
2019 12.0 9.6 5 0 0
2018 14.6 7.3 5 1 0
2017 2.5 2.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MN · Rochester

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 290 employers in Rochester, MN · 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 Moscow #029 20.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR VAL 21 20.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1434 20.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0247 Agoura Hills 20.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Twin City Framers 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fireside Hearth n Home Roseville 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schoenfelder Renovations 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ridley Inc. 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Rochester 38,233 FTE
CITY-NEAR Olmsted County 1,304 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Collaborative Services, LLC 1,051 FTE
CITY-NEAR FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS 823 FTE
NAT-TCR TXD032 20.5 TCR
NAT-TCR RbA Los Angeles 20.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Bear Logistics Services, LLC 20.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Motherlove Herbal Company 20.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0224 San Diego 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0139 Everett 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE S02962 - Compton Hauling 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Palos South Middle School 76 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.