Grocery Store · North Carolina

Trader Joe's 0745 Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC · ~132 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0745 Chapel Hill runs at 400% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0745 Chapel Hill: 13.6 TCR = 400% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0745 Chapel Hill safety composite

Trader Joe's 0745 Chapel Hill scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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 13.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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 0745 Chapel Hill: 11.6 → 13.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 30.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.57× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0745 Chapel Hill's TCR rose 1.9 from 11.6 in 2016 to 13.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 30.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Chapel Hill, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 13.6 · 400% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK #1600/1627
  • PHOTO Store 1177
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 82 inj
  • SIZE ~132 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store 1177 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0745 Chapel Hill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0745 Chapel Hill averages 13.6 TCR (400% 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 0745 Chapel Hill TCR series: 2016=11.6 · 2017=7.1 · 2018=10.3 · 2019=9.9 · 2020=10.1 · 2021=3.4 · 2022=30.8 · 2023=25.8 · 2024=13.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0745 Chapel Hill falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 5% 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 #1600 safest of 1627 Grocery Store employers in North Carolina.

Trader Joe's 0745 Chapel Hill (132 employees, TCR 13.6) 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 0745 Chapel Hill
Trader Joe's 0745 Chapel Hill (132 employees, TCR 13.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0745 Chapel Hill 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 13.5 7.7 12 2 0
2023 25.8 16.5 16 9 0
2022 30.8 28.5 9 18 0
2021 3.4 2.3 3 0 0
2020 10.1 7.4 7 8 0
2019 9.9 6.9 9 1 0
2018 10.3 7.2 9 1 0
2017 7.1 2.4 7 2 0
2016 11.6 3.5 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Chapel Hill

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 104 employers in Chapel Hill, 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 Store 1177 13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR KING KULLEN #19 13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 20500002-593 STORE 593 - LODI 13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6962-ABS-0029-0028-03797 13.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Charlotte, NC Office 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE US150: Charlotte 260 - SG 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lenoir Site 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iron Horse Contractors 132 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 21,973 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNC Health Care 11,237 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spec Personnel, LLC 644 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brookdale chapel hill 509 FTE
NAT-TCR Compass on the Bay 13.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1177 13.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Willow Creek Veterinary Center 13.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross Manor 13.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Packaging Services of Maryland 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seneca Foods 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Builders Enterprises LLC 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1114 - NSM Nyberg Rivers 132 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.