Fertilizing lawns · New Jersey

5309 - Wayne

Wayne, NJ · ~43 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

5309 - Wayne runs at 166% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fertilizing lawns workplace, earning a grade D.

5309 - Wayne: 7.5 TCR = 166% of Fertilizing lawns BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

5309 - Wayne safety composite

5309 - Wayne scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

5309 - Wayne: 6.8 → 8.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.72× in 2018

5309 - Wayne's TCR rose 1.3 from 6.8 in 2017 to 8.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Wayne, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.5 · 166% of ind

  • DART 5.4 DART
  • RANK #44/55
  • PHOTO McGuire's Beautiful …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: McGuire's Beautiful Outdoors, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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5309 - Wayne in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 5309 - Wayne averages 7.5 TCR (166% of the Fertilizing lawns BLS benchmark).

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

5309 - Wayne TCR series: 2017=6.8 · 2018=8.1 · BLS 4.5

Where 5309 - Wayne falls in its industry

2,875 Fertilizing lawns establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #44 safest of 55 Fertilizing lawns employers in New Jersey.

5309 - Wayne (43 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 5309 - Wayne
5309 - Wayne (43 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

5309 - Wayne has fewer employees than the Fertilizing lawns median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 8.1 5.4 3 0 0
2017 6.8 3.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · NJ · Wayne

2,875 Fertilizing lawns employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 120 employers in Wayne, 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 McGuire's Beautiful Outdoors, Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR LHLC Yard 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR A & G Tree Service, Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Westbury, NY 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elizabethtown Gas: New Village 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE South Jersey Gas: Cumberland 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Water Operations and Maintenance, LLC City of Camden 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE NJ Division - Freehold 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR main facility 2,237 FTE
CITY-NEAR Getinge USA Sales, LLC - One Geoffrey Way 1,062 FTE
CITY-NEAR DSV Solutions WYN 847 FTE
CITY-NEAR BAE Systems Electronic Systems WNJ 742 FTE
NAT-TCR Miller's Bakery Inc.-Steven Road 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Las Cruces (Nmlas) 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR El Paso (Txelp) 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Akron Zoo 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE dd's DISCOUNTS Store 5201 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Bend Hospice 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blue Grass Golden Corral - Elizabethtown 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chromalloy Middletown 43 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.