Grocery stores · New Jersey

#631 Howell Shoprite

Howell, NJ · ~272 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

#631 Howell Shoprite runs at 274% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade F.

#631 Howell Shoprite: 9.3 TCR = 274% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

#631 Howell Shoprite safety composite

#631 Howell Shoprite scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.2

2016→2019

#631 Howell Shoprite injury rate improved

#631 Howell Shoprite's TCR fell 3.2 from 7.8 in 2016 to 4.6 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 13.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.8 · 2017=11.3 · 2018=13.5 · 2019=4.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Howell, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.3 · 274% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #593/746
  • PHOTO STOP & SHOP 100620
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 78 inj
  • SIZE ~272 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: STOP & SHOP 100620 (0.0 TCR gap)

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#631 Howell Shoprite in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows #631 Howell Shoprite averages 9.3 TCR (274% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

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

#631 Howell Shoprite TCR series: 2016=7.8 · 2017=11.3 · 2018=13.5 · 2019=4.6 · BLS 3.4

Where #631 Howell Shoprite falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 14% 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 #593 safest of 746 Grocery stores employers in New Jersey.

#631 Howell Shoprite (272 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 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 0100200300 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate #631 Howell Shoprite
#631 Howell Shoprite (272 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

#631 Howell Shoprite has more employees than the Grocery stores 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
2019 4.6 3.6 9 0 0
2018 13.5 3.9 28 0 0
2017 11.3 4.3 24 0 0
2016 7.8 1.4 17 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NJ · Howell

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 31 employers in Howell, 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 STOP & SHOP 100620 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1808-00001201-697 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6962-SWY-0025-0025-00993 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6400-SWY-0027-0027-03248 9.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Givaudan Flavors Corp., Merry Lane, East Hanover NJ 272 FTE
STATE-SIZE Infineum USA INC 272 FTE
STATE-SIZE #506 East Windsor Shoprite 272 FTE
STATE-SIZE Freehold Raceway 017 272 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2195 346 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2195 310 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1823 - Howell Township 196 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1676 LOWE S OF HOWELL NJ 144 FTE
NAT-TCR District 2 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Baton Rouge Heritage House 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Amzl : Dml2 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 106 9.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE MN,WORTHINGTON - Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 272 FTE
NAT-SIZE Turners Falls 272 FTE
NAT-SIZE AR05 272 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bose Reservoir 272 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.