Department Stores · New Jersey

020 - Garden State

Paramus, NJ · ~197 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

020 - Garden State runs at 251% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Department Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

020 - Garden State: 8.5 TCR = 251% of Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

020 - Garden State safety composite

020 - Garden State scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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 8.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

020 - Garden State: 5.5 → 11.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 11.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.37× in 2018

020 - Garden State's TCR rose 6.0 from 5.5 in 2016 to 11.5 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452111 · Paramus, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.5 · 251% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #49/50
  • PHOTO Pepe Ganga Cidra
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~197 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pepe Ganga Cidra (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · New Jersey employers → · Look up another →

020 - Garden State in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 020 - Garden State averages 8.5 TCR (251% of the Department Stores BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

020 - Garden State TCR series: 2016=5.5 · 2018=11.5 · BLS 3.4

Where 020 - Garden State falls in its industry

1,987 Department Stores establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #49 safest of 50 Department Stores employers in New Jersey.

020 - Garden State (197 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 020 - Garden State
020 - Garden State (197 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 3.3

020 - Garden State has more employees than the Department Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2018 11.5 3.1 11 0 0
2016 5.5 1.6 5 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452111 · NJ · Paramus

1,987 Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 105 employers in Paramus, NJ · 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 Pepe Ganga Cidra 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0228 Lady Lake 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit # 0891 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR STR0346 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE PSE&G NJ Utility Support 197 FTE
STATE-SIZE Falasca Mechanical Inc. 197 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cape May Foods, LLC 197 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1389 - Deptford 197 FTE
CITY-NEAR PRMSNJ60 737 FTE
CITY-NEAR PRMSNJ60 - AT&T Mobility Services LLC 668 FTE
CITY-NEAR Garden State Plaza 075 609 FTE
CITY-NEAR LBF - HQ 401 FTE
NAT-TCR City of Detroit Department of Public Works - Solid Waste Division 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR El Paso (Txgdy) 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Giorgi Mushroom Farm 1 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Pagosa - Resort 8.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tyler (Txtyl) 197 FTE
NAT-SIZE Monroe (Ncmon) 197 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chicago-Scs (Ilcst) 197 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dalton (Gadal) 197 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: 2018, 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.