General Freight Trucking,Local · New Jersey

Carteret

Carteret, NJ · ~209 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Carteret runs at 156% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General Freight Trucking,Local workplace, earning a grade D.

Carteret: 7.0 TCR = 156% of General Freight Trucking,Local BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carteret safety composite

Carteret scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.9

2016→2024

Carteret injury rate improved

Carteret's TCR fell 0.9 from 9.8 in 2016 to 8.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 9.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.8 · 2017=7.4 · 2018=9.6 · 2019=9.3 · 2020=7.4 · 2021=2.2 · 2022=1.7 · 2023=6.8 · 2024=8.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Carteret, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.0 · 156% of ind

  • DART 5.4 DART
  • RANK #42/75
  • PHOTO The Expediting Co., …
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 150 inj
  • SIZE ~209 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Expediting Co., Inc. CVG (0.0 TCR gap)

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Carteret in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carteret averages 7.0 TCR (156% of the General Freight Trucking,Local BLS benchmark).

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

Carteret TCR series: 2016=9.8 · 2017=7.4 · 2018=9.6 · 2019=9.3 · 2020=7.4 · 2021=2.2 · 2022=1.7 · 2023=6.8 · 2024=8.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Carteret falls in its industry

2,784 General Freight Trucking,Local establishments

Safer than 27% 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 #42 safest of 75 General Freight Trucking,Local employers in New Jersey.

Carteret (209 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Carteret
Carteret (209 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Carteret has more employees than the General Freight Trucking,Local 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
2024 8.9 5.4 18 0 0
2023 6.8 6.3 14 0 0
2022 1.7 1.4 6 0 0
2021 2.2 2.2 4 0 0
2020 7.4 3.0 15 0 0
2019 9.3 5.8 21 0 0
2018 9.6 5.7 22 0 0
2017 7.4 3.0 22 0 0
2016 9.8 5.6 28 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · NJ · Carteret

2,784 General Freight Trucking,Local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 37 employers in Carteret, 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 The Expediting Co., Inc. CVG 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR M&M Transport - Franklin 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR RIALTO (CABLO) 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buffalo 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Vollers Excavating and Construction, Inc 209 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blue Anchor 209 FTE
STATE-SIZE RTTNA - All Locations Combined 209 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thermo Fisher Scientific - Bridgewater 209 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : EWR9 3,039 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - EWR9 2,771 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - CDW5 1,135 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cosmax USA 685 FTE
NAT-TCR Zimmerman Industries Inc 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Highways/Roads - Operations 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bowling Green 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Medilodge of Kalamazoo 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE B.R. Kreider & Son, Inc. 209 FTE
NAT-SIZE USU 209 FTE
NAT-SIZE Madison East 16 209 FTE
NAT-SIZE Defiance 2 209 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.