Grocery Store · North Carolina

Trader Joe's 0740 Asheville

Asheville, NC · ~125 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
19.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0740 Asheville runs at 558% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0740 Asheville: 19.0 TCR = 558% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0740 Asheville safety composite

Trader Joe's 0740 Asheville scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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 0740 Asheville: 13.2 → 14.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 41.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.39× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0740 Asheville's TCR rose 1.4 from 13.2 in 2016 to 14.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 41.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Asheville, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 19.0 · 558% of ind

  • DART 7.3 DART
  • RANK #1619/1627
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0216 Ch…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 113 inj
  • SIZE ~125 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0216 Chino Hills (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0740 Asheville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0740 Asheville averages 19.0 TCR (558% 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 0740 Asheville TCR series: 2016=13.2 · 2017=13.7 · 2018=18.9 · 2019=8.6 · 2020=6.1 · 2021=17.8 · 2022=41.7 · 2023=36 · 2024=14.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0740 Asheville falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1619 safest of 1627 Grocery Store employers in North Carolina.

Trader Joe's 0740 Asheville (125 employees, TCR 19.0) 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 0740 Asheville
Trader Joe's 0740 Asheville (125 employees, TCR 19.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0740 Asheville 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 14.6 7.3 16 0 0
2023 36.0 16.6 31 8 0
2022 41.7 29.9 14 25 0
2021 17.8 10.7 8 7 0
2020 6.1 2.4 5 0 0
2019 8.6 4.9 7 0 0
2018 18.9 10.1 13 2 0
2017 13.7 8.2 10 0 0
2016 13.2 1.5 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Asheville

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 290 employers in Asheville, NC · 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 0216 Chino Hills 19.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Piggly Wiggly #193 19.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6962-SWY-0029-0029-01767 18.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Price Rite Store 369 Willimantic 18.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE KGPCo Services, LLC dba Circet USA - Raleigh 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE C&C Boiler Sales & Service Inc. 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arcadia Farms dba Arcadia Beverage Company, LLC 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Everest-Textile USA LLC 125 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mission Hospital; MH Hospital Manager, LLC 8,097 FTE
CITY-NEAR Biltmore Workforce Management 1,894 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mission Medical Associates 1,336 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Care Partners 1,018 FTE
NAT-TCR Salvage 19.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0216 Chino Hills 19.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hansen Dam District Maintenance 19.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Goodwill Crystal River 19.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0606 Edgewater 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sycamore Run 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Western Dairy Transport-Shallowater 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carl A. Nelson & Company 125 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.