Wired Telecommunications Carriers · New Jersey

40 Potash Rd

Oakland, NJ · ~284 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

40 Potash Rd runs at 1123% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Wired Telecommunications Carriers workplace, earning a grade F.

40 Potash Rd: 7.9 TCR = 1123% of Wired Telecommunications Carriers BLS 0.7 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

40 Potash Rd safety composite

40 Potash Rd scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

40 Potash Rd: 6.0 → 7.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 9.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.82× in 2021

40 Potash Rd's TCR rose 1.9 from 6.0 in 2016 to 7.9 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 9.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 517311 · Oakland, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.9 · 1123% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK P21
  • PHOTO Ellsworth: 445 MAIN ST
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 93 inj
  • SIZE ~284 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ellsworth: 445 MAIN ST (0.2 TCR gap)

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40 Potash Rd in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 40 Potash Rd averages 7.9 TCR (1123% of the Wired Telecommunications Carriers BLS benchmark).

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

40 Potash Rd TCR series: 2016=6 · 2017=7 · 2018=8.6 · 2020=9.8 · 2021=7.9 · BLS 0.7

Where 40 Potash Rd falls in its industry

61 Wired Telecommunications Carri establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
40 Potash Rd (284 employees, TCR 7.9) among 28 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.9 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 29 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 40 Potash Rd
40 Potash Rd (284 employees, TCR 7.9) among 28 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.9

40 Potash Rd has more employees than the Wired Telecommunications Carriers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 7.9 6.5 17 0 0
2020 9.8 8.9 22 0 0
2018 8.6 8.6 22 0 0
2017 7.0 5.8 17 0 0
2016 6.0 5.6 15 1 1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

517311 · NJ · Oakland

61 Wired Telecommunications Carriers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 19 employers in Oakland, 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 Ellsworth: 445 MAIN ST 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Benton, KY 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Moline IL (Quad Cities - 2) 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Citrus Heights: 7664 Old Aubu 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shop Rite of English Creek 284 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2141 - Union North 284 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0244 - EAST HANOVER NJ WHSE 284 FTE
STATE-SIZE TRENTON CARRIER ANNEX_1470784 284 FTE
CITY-NEAR ShopRite of Long Hill Plaza 216 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oakland operator LLC 213 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oakland 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR Platinum Press - New Jersey 76 FTE
NAT-TCR Fort Lauderdale (FLL) 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Clinton Gardens 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Kitty Hawk 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Holmes Building Materials - Airline 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pennbright 284 FTE
NAT-SIZE GHSP Hart 284 FTE
NAT-SIZE Purple - Alpine 284 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZNBT 284 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.