Employer · New Jersey

478 - Hillsborough

Hillsborough, NJ · ~139 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

478 - Hillsborough runs at 100% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical industry workplace, earning a grade C.

478 - Hillsborough: 3.4 TCR = 100% of industry BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

478 - Hillsborough safety composite

478 - Hillsborough scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

478 - Hillsborough: 1.3 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.55× in 2022

478 - Hillsborough's TCR rose 6.3 from 1.3 in 2016 to 7.5 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452210 · Hillsborough, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 100% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #57/105
  • PHOTO 71050
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~139 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 71050 (0.0 TCR gap)

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478 - Hillsborough in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 478 - Hillsborough averages 3.4 TCR (100% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

478 - Hillsborough TCR series: 2016=1.3 · 2017=2.7 · 2018=2.9 · 2019=5.9 · 2020=0 · 2022=7.5 · BLS 3.4

Where 478 - Hillsborough falls in its industry

2,917 industry establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #57 safest of 105 industry employers in New Jersey.

478 - Hillsborough (139 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 478 - Hillsborough
478 - Hillsborough (139 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1

478 - Hillsborough has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2022 7.5 1.9 4 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 5.9 1.5 4 0 0
2018 2.9 1.4 2 0 0
2017 2.7 1.4 2 0 0
2016 1.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452210 · NJ · Hillsborough

2,917 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 48 employers in Hillsborough, 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 71050 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 71466 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 956 - East Peoria 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1169 - Richland 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hatzel & Buehler, Inc. NJ 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tore Electric Co. 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE B&H Equipment 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE Paulsboro Lubricants Plant 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eastern Janitorial Services 692 FTE
CITY-NEAR Landscape Maintenance Services, Inc. 364 FTE
CITY-NEAR RB Manufacturing LLC 286 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shop Rite of Hillsborough 282 FTE
NAT-TCR 956 - East Peoria 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 1169 - Richland 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Lofton Label, Inc 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 1350 - Blue Springs 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 377 - East Setauket 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE 601 - Ontario 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE 66 - Downers Grove 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Onward Manufacturing Company 139 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: 2022, 2020, 2019, 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.