Grocery Store · North Carolina

Trader Joe's 0747 Wilmington

Wilmington, NC · ~79 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0747 Wilmington runs at 491% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0747 Wilmington: 16.7 TCR = 491% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0747 Wilmington safety composite

Trader Joe's 0747 Wilmington scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

−11.5

2016→2024

Trader Joe's 0747 Wilmington injury rate improved

Trader Joe's 0747 Wilmington's TCR fell 11.5 from 21.7 in 2016 to 10.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 32.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=21.7 · 2017=12.7 · 2018=14.5 · 2019=14.8 · 2020=9.3 · 2021=23.7 · 2022=32.4 · 2023=11.1 · 2024=10.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Wilmington, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.7 · 491% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #1612/1627
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0130 Se…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 52 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0130 Seattle (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0747 Wilmington in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0747 Wilmington averages 16.7 TCR (491% 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 0747 Wilmington TCR series: 2016=21.7 · 2017=12.7 · 2018=14.5 · 2019=14.8 · 2020=9.3 · 2021=23.7 · 2022=32.4 · 2023=11.1 · 2024=10.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0747 Wilmington 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 North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1612 safest of 1627 Grocery Store employers in North Carolina.

Trader Joe's 0747 Wilmington (79 employees, TCR 16.7) 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 0747 Wilmington
Trader Joe's 0747 Wilmington (79 employees, TCR 16.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0747 Wilmington 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 10.2 5.1 8 0 0
2023 11.1 9.7 3 5 0
2022 32.4 24.3 7 13 0
2021 23.7 18.2 4 9 0
2020 9.3 1.9 5 0 0
2019 14.8 12.9 5 3 0
2018 14.5 6.2 6 1 0
2017 12.7 6.3 5 1 0
2016 21.7 6.5 9 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Wilmington

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 360 employers in Wilmington, 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 0130 Seattle 16.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2161 Ctv8 16.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Visalia #061 16.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6962-SWY-0029-0029-02066 16.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience Laurinburg 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE GASTONIA OPS MOC GARAGE BLDG B 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sikes Place - Ste 100 / 200 / 250 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Inside Sales Raleigh 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center 6,890 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Hanover Regional Medical Center 4,768 FTE
CITY-NEAR GE Hitachi Nuclear Americas 1,975 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Hanover County Government 1,974 FTE
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0130 Seattle 16.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Schaller Corporation Plant 3 16.7 TCR
NAT-TCR TexaScapes - Yard 16.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage Health Care Center 16.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0731 Sandy Springs 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0698 Park Ridge 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE S.J. Electro Systems, Inc. 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE WATERBURY 79 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.