Hydroponic crop farming · New Jersey

AW Franklin- Ascend Wellness Holdings

Franklin, NJ · ~279 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AW Franklin- Ascend Wellness Holdings runs at 76% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Hydroponic crop farming workplace, earning a grade B.

AW Franklin- Ascend Wellness Holdings: 3.4 TCR = 76% of Hydroponic crop farming BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AW Franklin- Ascend Wellness Holdings safety composite

AW Franklin- Ascend Wellness Holdings scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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

AW Franklin- Ascend Wellness Holdings: 2.8 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.01× in 2024

AW Franklin- Ascend Wellness Holdings's TCR rose 1.3 from 2.8 in 2023 to 4.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111419 · Franklin, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 3.4 · 76% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #3/7
  • PHOTO Verano OH CPG - Moth…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~279 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Verano OH CPG - Mothers Grow Best (0.0 TCR gap)

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AW Franklin- Ascend Wellness Holdings in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AW Franklin- Ascend Wellness Holdings averages 3.4 TCR (76% of the Hydroponic crop farming BLS benchmark).

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

AW Franklin- Ascend Wellness Holdings TCR series: 2023=2.8 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 4.5

Where AW Franklin- Ascend Wellness Holdings falls in its industry

251 Hydroponic crop farming establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 7 Hydroponic crop farming employers in New Jersey.

AW Franklin- Ascend Wellness Holdings (279 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate AW Franklin- Ascend Wellness Holdings
AW Franklin- Ascend Wellness Holdings (279 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.9

AW Franklin- Ascend Wellness Holdings has more employees than the Hydroponic crop farming median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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
2024 4.1 3.4 11 2 0
2023 2.8 2.4 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111419 · NJ · Franklin

251 Hydroponic crop farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 6 employers in Franklin, 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 Verano OH CPG - Mothers Grow Best 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR FarmaceuticalRX LLC PA 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Driven Grow LLC 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trulieve Madison Couny 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Florham Park, NY (15 Vreeland Rd) 279 FTE
STATE-SIZE Woodbridge Center 009 279 FTE
STATE-SIZE SC&BP Services 279 FTE
STATE-SIZE USPL Nutritionals LLC 278 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2090 165 FTE
CITY-NEAR 147 108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Barrett Franklin 102 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0000000077 QUICKCHEK FOOD STORES 28 FTE
NAT-TCR Global Machine Works 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ohnew - Newark 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR CA-Whittier S/C 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR STR0014 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE USA Shade & Fabric Structures 279 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flgai - Gainesville Center 279 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kylse - Outerloop Building 5 279 FTE
NAT-SIZE TriMold LLC 279 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: 2024, 2023. 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.