Variety stores · New Jersey

553 Sparta NJ

Sparta Township, NJ · ~52 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

553 Sparta NJ runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Variety stores workplace, earning a grade B.

553 Sparta NJ: 2.2 TCR = 65% of Variety stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

553 Sparta NJ safety composite

553 Sparta NJ scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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

553 Sparta NJ: 0.0 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 4.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2017

553 Sparta NJ's TCR rose 4.4 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.4 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Sparta Township, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 65% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #13/62
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #4614…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #4614 Payson, AZ (0.0 TCR gap)

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553 Sparta NJ in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 553 Sparta NJ averages 2.2 TCR (65% of the Variety stores BLS benchmark).

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

553 Sparta NJ TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=4.4 · BLS 3.4

Where 553 Sparta NJ falls in its industry

2,120 Variety stores establishments

Safer than 79% 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 #13 safest of 62 Variety stores employers in New Jersey.

553 Sparta NJ (52 employees, TCR 2.2) 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 020406080100 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 553 Sparta NJ
553 Sparta NJ (52 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

553 Sparta NJ has more employees than the Variety stores median and a lower 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
2017 4.4 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · NJ · Sparta Township

2,120 Variety stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 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 #4614 Payson, AZ 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1078 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #5328 Lincolnton, NC 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4667 Mesa, AZ 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lynmar Builders 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Phoenix Medical Construction 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jocama Construction Corp 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allied telecom corp 52 FTE
NAT-TCR James River Work Center 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Jarden Zinc Products 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR HBSHSEPA34 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 1855-CTBRI7 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rocky Mountain Stonework, Inc. 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Hartville LLC 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Sikeston at Clearview Inc 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Buckhead Meat of North Carolina 52 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: 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.