Grocery Store · Alabama

Trader Joe's 0737 Birmingham

Birmingham, AL · ~102 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0737 Birmingham runs at 464% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0737 Birmingham: 15.8 TCR = 464% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0737 Birmingham safety composite

Trader Joe's 0737 Birmingham scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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

−10.6

2016→2024

Trader Joe's 0737 Birmingham injury rate improved

Trader Joe's 0737 Birmingham's TCR fell 10.6 from 16.3 in 2016 to 5.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 23.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=16.3 · 2017=18.8 · 2018=14.5 · 2019=10.8 · 2020=14.7 · 2021=23.5 · 2022=22.0 · 2023=15.6 · 2024=5.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Birmingham, AL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 15.8 · 464% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #379/382
  • PHOTO 150
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 49 inj
  • SIZE ~102 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 150 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0737 Birmingham in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0737 Birmingham averages 15.8 TCR (464% 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 0737 Birmingham TCR series: 2016=16.3 · 2017=18.8 · 2018=14.5 · 2019=10.8 · 2020=14.7 · 2021=23.5 · 2022=22 · 2023=15.6 · 2024=5.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0737 Birmingham falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #379 safest of 382 Grocery Store employers in Alabama.

Trader Joe's 0737 Birmingham (102 employees, TCR 15.8) 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 0737 Birmingham
Trader Joe's 0737 Birmingham (102 employees, TCR 15.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0737 Birmingham has more 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 5.7 2.3 5 0 0
2023 15.6 14.5 6 8 0
2022 22.0 15.6 7 10 0
2021 23.5 22.1 2 15 0
2020 14.7 14.7 1 9 0
2019 10.8 7.2 6 0 0
2018 14.5 8.3 7 0 0
2017 18.8 7.0 8 0 0
2016 16.3 4.1 7 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · AL · Birmingham

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 840 employers in Birmingham, AL · 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 150 15.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0772 Palm Beach Gardens 15.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR KING KULLEN #40 15.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR MOR 63 15.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE White-Spunner Construction LLC 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.T. Harrison Construction Co., Inc. 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE Proshot Concrete, Inc 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE MVP Tuscumbia 102 FTE
CITY-NEAR USD 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR CLASSIC FOODS 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR BIRMINGHAM PACKERS 8,650 FTE
NAT-TCR Propak - Denver, CO 15.8 TCR
NAT-TCR RVMur Operations, CO. LLC 15.8 TCR
NAT-TCR MID006 15.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Wiggins Lift Company 15.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0552 Oceanside 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Front Range Stone, Inc 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Office 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Supermercado La Chiquita Cermak 102 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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