Marine cargo handling services · New Jersey

APM Terminals

Elizabeth, NJ · ~1,389 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

APM Terminals runs at 24% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Marine cargo handling services workplace, earning a grade A.

APM Terminals: 1.1 TCR = 24% of Marine cargo handling services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

APM Terminals safety composite

APM Terminals scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

APM Terminals: 0.8 → 1.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 1.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.27× in 2023

APM Terminals's TCR rose 0.6 from 0.8 in 2021 to 1.4 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488320 · Elizabeth, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 24% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #5/20
  • PHOTO Shore Tankering Serv…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 47 inj
  • SIZE ~1,389 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Shore Tankering Service (0.0 TCR gap)

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APM Terminals in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows APM Terminals averages 1.1 TCR (24% of the Marine cargo handling services BLS benchmark).

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

APM Terminals TCR series: 2021=0.8 · 2023=1.4 · BLS 4.5

Where APM Terminals falls in its industry

391 Marine cargo handling services establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 20 Marine cargo handling services employers in New Jersey.

APM Terminals (1,389 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate APM Terminals
APM Terminals (1,389 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 4.8

APM Terminals has more employees than the Marine cargo handling services median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2023 1.4 1.4 30 0 0
2021 0.8 0.8 17 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488320 · NJ · Elizabeth

391 Marine cargo handling services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 145 employers in Elizabeth, 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 Shore Tankering Service 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stevedoring 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valero Port Arthur 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Impala Terminals Burnside 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE NJRAR - UPS TECHNOLOGY HEADQUARTERS DATACENTER 1,390 FTE
STATE-SIZE Riggs Distler & Company Inc 1,392 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Jersey City University 1,396 FTE
STATE-SIZE Panasonic Corpoartion of North America 1,397 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DEW2 2,770 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trinitas Regional Medical Center 2,376 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maher Berth 64 1,041 FTE
CITY-NEAR Allied Beverage Group 1,015 FTE
NAT-TCR Ferco Tech LLC 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Commercial HVAC Americas : SVC-Southern Atlantic : SVC-Richmond VA-USA 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR CYE Walcott 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR LifeFlight Eagle 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Liberty Distribution 1,389 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mcincr - Mcb Quantico 1,389 FTE
NAT-SIZE Richardson Methodist Medical Center 1,389 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilo Medical Center 1,389 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: 2023, 2021. 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.