Employer · New Jersey

10602 Metuchen

Metuchen, NJ · ~255 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

10602 Metuchen runs at 118% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical industry workplace, earning a grade C.

10602 Metuchen: 4.0 TCR = 118% of industry BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

10602 Metuchen safety composite

10602 Metuchen scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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).

D

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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

10602 Metuchen: 1.7 → 8.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.71× in 2024

10602 Metuchen's TCR rose 6.9 from 1.7 in 2020 to 8.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Metuchen, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 118% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #194/746
  • PHOTO Bridgeport Price Cut…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~255 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bridgeport Price Cutter (0.0 TCR gap)

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10602 Metuchen in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 10602 Metuchen averages 4.0 TCR (118% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

10602 Metuchen TCR series: 2020=1.7 · 2021=1.1 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=8.6 · BLS 3.4

Where 10602 Metuchen falls in its industry

30,654 industry establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #194 safest of 746 industry employers in New Jersey.

10602 Metuchen (255 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 050100150200250300 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate 10602 Metuchen
10602 Metuchen (255 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

10602 Metuchen has more employees than the industry median and a lower 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 8.6 2.9 11 1 0
2023 4.8 1.4 7 0 0
2021 1.1 0.0 2 0 0
2020 1.7 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NJ · Metuchen

30,654 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 11 employers in Metuchen, 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 Bridgeport Price Cutter 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0770 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1047 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1196 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Akorn Operating Company, LLC Somerset 255 FTE
STATE-SIZE Soho Studio Corp, LLC 255 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shop Rite 255 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shoprite of Paramus 255 FTE
CITY-NEAR WinCup Metuchen 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR SPEX CERTIPREP GROUP, LLC 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR 203 Norcross & 15 Liberty 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR Graphic Equipment Corp 48 FTE
NAT-TCR Creech Logistics, INC 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mercy Rehabilitation Hospital Springfield 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Byhalia - 291 Norfolk Southern Way 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1506 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 10452 Lynnfield 255 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marvin Windows and Doors South - West Fargo 255 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 0640 255 FTE
NAT-SIZE A Bright Future, Inc. 255 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, 2021, 2020. 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.