Grocery Store · Tennessee

Trader Joe's 0787 Chattanooga

Chattanooga, TN · ~78 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
32.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0787 Chattanooga runs at 950% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0787 Chattanooga: 32.3 TCR = 950% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0787 Chattanooga safety composite

Trader Joe's 0787 Chattanooga scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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 32.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

−4.1

2021→2024

Trader Joe's 0787 Chattanooga injury rate improved

Trader Joe's 0787 Chattanooga's TCR fell 4.1 from 29.4 in 2021 to 25.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 40.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=29.4 · 2022=33.5 · 2023=40.9 · 2024=25.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Chattanooga, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 32.3 · 950% of ind

  • DART 13.4 DART
  • RANK #494/494
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0215 Lo…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 47 inj
  • SIZE ~78 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0215 Los Angeles (2.6 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0787 Chattanooga in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0787 Chattanooga averages 32.3 TCR (950% of the Grocery Store BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Trader Joe's 0787 Chattanooga TCR series: 2021=29.4 · 2022=33.5 · 2023=40.9 · 2024=25.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0787 Chattanooga falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #494 safest of 494 Grocery Store employers in Tennessee.

Trader Joe's 0787 Chattanooga (78 employees, TCR 32.3) 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 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Trader Joe's 0787 Chattanooga
Trader Joe's 0787 Chattanooga (78 employees, TCR 32.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0787 Chattanooga 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 25.3 13.4 16 1 0
2023 40.9 21.3 21 4 0
2022 33.5 20.1 9 11 0
2021 29.4 25.7 1 7 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · TN · Chattanooga

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 695 employers in Chattanooga, TN · 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 0215 Los Angeles 29.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0054 Toluca Lake 29.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0524 Orange 29.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trig's Eagle River 29.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rider Logistics LLC 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Memphis Vending 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4795-PD-TYS-KNOXVILLE-TYS-PDMT 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE City Thrift - Smyrna 78 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA COKE 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHATTANOOGA FOOD 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR USXpress 7,385 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cardiology GB 6,606 FTE
NAT-TCR Governor Juan F. Luis Hospital and Medical Center 30.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 048 Juvenile Detention Center 30.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Rockland Facility 30.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kemper Moving Systems 30.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Light Connection, Inc. 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stevens Creek Chrysler Jeep Dodge 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE McLain Farms, Inc. 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Casa Grande AZ Truss 78 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. 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.