Discount Department Stores · New Jersey

1315 - Linden

Linden, NJ · ~179 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1315 - Linden runs at 147% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

1315 - Linden: 5.0 TCR = 147% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1315 - Linden safety composite

1315 - Linden scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.83 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%).

Rising injury rate

1315 - Linden: 0.0 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 12.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.77× in 2024

1315 - Linden's TCR rose 4.8 from 0.0 in 2019 to 4.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 12.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Linden, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 147% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #43/85
  • PHOTO Ross store 593
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~179 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ross store 593 (0.0 TCR gap)

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1315 - Linden in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1315 - Linden averages 5.0 TCR (147% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

1315 - Linden TCR series: 2019=0 · 2021=12.6 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=2 · 2024=4.8 · BLS 3.4

Where 1315 - Linden falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #43 safest of 85 Discount Department Stores employers in New Jersey.

1315 - Linden (179 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 1315 - Linden
1315 - Linden (179 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

1315 - Linden has more employees than the Discount Department Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 4.8 3.8 5 0 0
2023 2.0 1.0 2 0 0
2022 5.5 4.6 4 2 0
2021 12.6 9.7 0 13 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · NJ · Linden

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 108 employers in Linden, 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 Ross store 593 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 662 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 293 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 105 - Sioux Falls 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE US137: North Jersey 518 - SG 179 FTE
STATE-SIZE LCCB 1L06 MOORESTOWN NJ PRODUCTION 179 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heritage Pharma Labs Inc. 179 FTE
STATE-SIZE Camfil -Riverdale, NJ 179 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Apron Linden FC 879 FTE
CITY-NEAR Phillips66 Bayway Refinery 771 FTE
CITY-NEAR Central Staffing Solutions 766 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bayway Refinery 693 FTE
NAT-TCR AMG Resources - Baltimore, MD 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Park 100 Foods Tipton 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Skyline 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR West Palm Beach FL FXFE-WPB 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2548 - West Pottsgrove Twp 179 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2544 - Warren 179 FTE
NAT-SIZE McComb Lumber 179 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marshall Facility 179 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, 2019. 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.