Discount Department Stores · New Jersey

1491 - East Hanover

East Hanover, NJ · ~234 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1491 - East Hanover runs at 156% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

1491 - East Hanover: 5.3 TCR = 156% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1491 - East Hanover safety composite

1491 - East Hanover scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 41%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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

−0.7

2019→2024

1491 - East Hanover injury rate improved

1491 - East Hanover's TCR fell 0.7 from 1.5 in 2019 to 0.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 11.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=1.5 · 2021=11.9 · 2022=10.4 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · East Hanover, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 156% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #48/85
  • PHOTO WM 554
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~234 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WM 554 (0.0 TCR gap)

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1491 - East Hanover in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1491 - East Hanover averages 5.3 TCR (156% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

1491 - East Hanover TCR series: 2019=1.5 · 2021=11.9 · 2022=10.4 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=0.8 · BLS 3.4

Where 1491 - East Hanover falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 41% 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 #48 safest of 85 Discount Department Stores employers in New Jersey.

1491 - East Hanover (234 employees, TCR 5.3) 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 1491 - East Hanover
1491 - East Hanover (234 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

1491 - East Hanover 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 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2023 1.8 0.9 2 0 0
2022 10.4 9.6 3 10 0
2021 11.9 6.0 4 12 0
2019 1.5 1.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · NJ · East Hanover

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 45 employers in East Hanover, 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 WM 554 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 457 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR dd's DISCOUNTS Store 5113 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3395 - Bronx Fordham Road 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Building 2033 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE MY AUTO STORE BUILDING J 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE ShopRite of Lincoln Park, Inc. 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2633 234 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation 4,657 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novartis Pharmaceutical Sales Force 3,396 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novartis Pharmaceuticals Field Force 2,977 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mondelez Global North East HDQ - Sales 1,445 FTE
NAT-TCR K&M Tire Beresford 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Duval Cty- 2 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Friant - California 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1009 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1229 - Everett 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2399 - Hanover Township 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern Site Contractors 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1837 - Baybrook 234 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.