All Other General Merchandise Stores · New Jersey

3598

Cedar Knolls, NJ · ~202 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

3598 runs at 153% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical All Other General Merchandise Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

3598: 5.2 TCR = 153% of All Other General Merchandise Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

3598 safety composite

3598 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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)
F 5.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

3598: 3.6 → 6.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.28× in 2021

3598's TCR rose 2.8 from 3.6 in 2016 to 6.4 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Cedar Knolls, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 153% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #39/62
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #1535…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~202 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #1535 ROLLA, MO (0.0 TCR gap)

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3598 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 3598 averages 5.2 TCR (153% of the All Other General Merchandise Stores BLS benchmark).

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

3598 TCR series: 2016=3.6 · 2018=4 · 2019=6.1 · 2020=5.9 · 2021=6.4 · BLS 3.4

Where 3598 falls in its industry

2,120 All Other General Merchandise establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 62 All Other General Merchandise employers in New Jersey.

3598 (202 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 3598
3598 (202 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

3598 has more employees than the All Other General Merchandise Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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
2021 6.4 1.4 9 0 0
2020 5.9 0.0 6 2 0
2019 6.1 0.7 9 0 0
2018 4.0 2.0 5 1 0
2016 3.6 1.2 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · NJ · Cedar Knolls

2,120 All Other General Merchandise Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 16 employers in Cedar Knolls, 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 Big Lots Store #1535 ROLLA, MO 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1181 NEWBURGH, NY 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #5309 Montgomery, AL 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #209 NILES, MI 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mount Olive Facility 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE GGI Secaucus 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE Guest Packaging (Rahway) 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE ShopRite of Palisades Park 202 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shop Rite of Greater Morristown 473 FTE
CITY-NEAR Asplundh Tree Expert LLC.-127 247 FTE
CITY-NEAR Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC- 127 241 FTE
CITY-NEAR Employment Horizons Enterprises 163 FTE
NAT-TCR Tasca Lincoln Mercury Inc Parts Center 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Program Development Services, Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Manor Care Nursing & Rehab Center Naples 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Meijer Store #272 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1073 - Roseburg or Whse 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0379 - Springdale Oh Whse 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE ADAC Automotive, Inc. - Port City Plant 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Fireside Dinner Theatre 202 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.