Telecommunications · New Jersey

494 Broad St

Newark, NJ · ~517 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

494 Broad St runs at 107% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Telecommunications workplace, earning a grade C.

494 Broad St: 0.8 TCR = 107% of Telecommunications BLS 0.7 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

494 Broad St safety composite

494 Broad St scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.66 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

494 Broad St: 0.5 → 1.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 1.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2018

494 Broad St's TCR rose 0.9 from 0.5 in 2016 to 1.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 517110 · Newark, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 0.8 · 107% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #11/15
  • PHOTO RCN Telecom Services…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~517 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RCN Telecom Services, LLC-Easton PA (0.0 TCR gap)

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494 Broad St in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 494 Broad St averages 0.8 TCR (107% of the Telecommunications BLS benchmark).

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

494 Broad St TCR series: 2016=0.5 · 2017=0.5 · 2018=1.3 · BLS 0.7

Where 494 Broad St falls in its industry

537 Telecommunications establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 15 Telecommunications employers in New Jersey.

494 Broad St (517 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 276 employees and a TCR of 1.3 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 01,0002,0003,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 494 Broad St
494 Broad St (517 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 276 employees and a TCR of 1.3

494 Broad St has more employees than the Telecommunications median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.3. 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
2018 1.3 0.7 6 0 0
2017 0.5 0.5 2 0 0
2016 0.5 0.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

517110 · NJ · Newark

537 Telecommunications employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 356 employers in Newark, 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 RCN Telecom Services, LLC-Easton PA 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR LFYTLATA 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR KSCYMOAU - AT&T Services, Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CHRLNCLT 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Security Resources Inc. 517 FTE
STATE-SIZE STA - Trenton 518 FTE
STATE-SIZE NORTHERN NJ METRO_1440977 518 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6458-ZPRN 518 FTE
CITY-NEAR EWR EWR 13,545 FTE
CITY-NEAR EWR - Airport United Airlines Offices 13,015 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-EWR 11,764 FTE
CITY-NEAR EWRPW9829 EWR - NON AA PAX SER 4,772 FTE
NAT-TCR Shopko Store #125 (Freeport, IL) 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Macon Valley Nursing & Rehab 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Toyota Boshoku Mississippi-Alabama 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Integrated DNA Technologies, Inc. Corporate Headquarters 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE HoneywellKS07 517 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scioto Downs 517 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beachwood Family Health & Surgery Center 517 FTE
NAT-SIZE I/N Tek & Kote 517 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: 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.