Hardening (i.e., heat treating) metals and metal products for the trade · New Jersey

Blue Bade Steel

Kenilworth, NJ · ~38 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blue Bade Steel runs at 115% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Hardening (i.e., heat treating) metals and metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade C.

Blue Bade Steel: 3.8 TCR = 115% of Hardening (i.e., heat treating) metals and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blue Bade Steel safety composite

Blue Bade Steel scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Blue Bade Steel: 0.0 → 7.6 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 7.6 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2017

Blue Bade Steel's TCR rose 7.6 from 0.0 in 2016 to 7.6 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332811 · Kenilworth, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 115% of ind

  • DART 7.6 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO BYINGTON STEEL TREAT…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BYINGTON STEEL TREATING, INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Blue Bade Steel in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blue Bade Steel averages 3.8 TCR (115% of the Hardening (i.e., heat treating) metals and metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Blue Bade Steel TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=7.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Blue Bade Steel falls in its industry

248 Hardening (i.e., heat treating establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Hardening (i.e., heat treating employers in New Jersey.

Blue Bade Steel (38 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Blue Bade Steel
Blue Bade Steel (38 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Blue Bade Steel has more employees than the Hardening (i.e., heat treating) metals a median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 7.6 7.6 4 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332811 · NJ · Kenilworth

248 Hardening (i.e., heat treating) metals and metal products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 21 employers in Kenilworth, 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 BYINGTON STEEL TREATING, INC 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Texas Heat Treating, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR SCIENTIFIC METAL TREATING CO. 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metallurgical Processing, Inc 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE South Jersey Gas-Waterford 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE JSH & Sons, LLC 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE NJN 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Paulsboro Refining Company 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kenilworth, NJ Facility 2,168 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kenilworth 374 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5472-NAI-0034-0034-01096 149 FTE
CITY-NEAR NAI-0034-0034-01096 FAC-01096-KENILWORTH-NJ 148 FTE
NAT-TCR RAI Crew CMH 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Tri-City (Westville) (Inwes) 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Oneida Healthcare ECF 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Haverhill Ma 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE RailWorks Transit 2nd Avenue 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Bloomfield LLC 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE 120 Rider Avenue PCH Operating Company, LP 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Skyline Surgery Center 38 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.

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

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