Blocks, fire clay, manufacturing · New Jersey

Certech Inc. - Wood-Ridge, NJ

Wood-Ridge, NJ · ~223 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Certech Inc. - Wood-Ridge, NJ runs at 21% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Blocks, fire clay, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Certech Inc. - Wood-Ridge, NJ: 0.7 TCR = 21% of Blocks, fire clay, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Certech Inc. - Wood-Ridge, NJ safety composite

Certech Inc. - Wood-Ridge, NJ scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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

Certech Inc. - Wood-Ridge, NJ: 0.0 → 1.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 1.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.43× in 2021

Certech Inc. - Wood-Ridge, NJ's TCR rose 1.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 1.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 1.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327120 · Wood-Ridge, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 21% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK P95
  • PHOTO Vesuvius - Champaign
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~223 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vesuvius - Champaign (0.0 TCR gap)

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Certech Inc. - Wood-Ridge, NJ in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Certech Inc. - Wood-Ridge, NJ averages 0.7 TCR (21% of the Blocks, fire clay, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Certech Inc. - Wood-Ridge, NJ TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=1 · BLS 3.3

Where Certech Inc. - Wood-Ridge, NJ falls in its industry

307 Blocks, fire clay, manufacturi establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Certech Inc. - Wood-Ridge, NJ (223 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 Certech Inc. - Wood-Ridge, NJ
Certech Inc. - Wood-Ridge, NJ (223 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Certech Inc. - Wood-Ridge, NJ has more employees than the Blocks, fire clay, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2021 1.0 1.0 1 0 0
2020 1.1 0.6 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327120 · NJ · Wood-Ridge

307 Blocks, fire clay, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 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 Vesuvius - Champaign 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 901 S 3rd Street & 4505 Prosperity Drive 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR DAL-ITALIA LLC 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Watsontown Brick Columbia 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Duro Bag - Elizabeth 223 FTE
STATE-SIZE NutraStar 223 FTE
STATE-SIZE Florence 223 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marlton Supermarket Inc. 223 FTE
CITY-NEAR Certech: Wood-Ridge, NJ 300 FTE
NAT-TCR Merritt Island Service Center 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR US779: Flaherty 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Probation Santa Ana Office 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Envise Southwest 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Copper Springs 223 FTE
NAT-SIZE Supply Chain : Greenville, SC 223 FTE
NAT-SIZE Claremont Cable Plant 223 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bria Health Services 223 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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