Distribution equipment, electrical, merchant wholesalers · New Jersey

Colonial Electric Supply Piscataway

Piscataway, NJ · ~22 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Colonial Electric Supply Piscataway runs at 355% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Distribution equipment, electrical, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Colonial Electric Supply Piscataway: 7.8 TCR = 355% of Distribution equipment, electrical, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Colonial Electric Supply Piscataway safety composite

Colonial Electric Supply Piscataway scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Colonial Electric Supply Piscataway: 4.8 → 10.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.38× in 2024

Colonial Electric Supply Piscataway's TCR rose 6.0 from 4.8 in 2023 to 10.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423610 · Piscataway, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 355% of ind

  • DART 10.8 DART
  • RANK #30/34
  • PHOTO United Electric Supp…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: United Electric Supply - Lancaster (0.1 TCR gap)

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Colonial Electric Supply Piscataway in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Colonial Electric Supply Piscataway averages 7.8 TCR (355% of the Distribution equipment, electrical, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Colonial Electric Supply Piscataway TCR series: 2023=4.8 · 2024=10.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Colonial Electric Supply Piscataway falls in its industry

1,190 Distribution equipment, electr establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 34 Distribution equipment, electr employers in New Jersey.

Colonial Electric Supply Piscataway (22 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Colonial Electric Supply Piscataway
Colonial Electric Supply Piscataway (22 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Colonial Electric Supply Piscataway has fewer employees than the Distribution equipment, electrical, merc median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 10.8 10.8 2 0 0
2023 4.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423610 · NJ · Piscataway

1,190 Distribution equipment, electrical, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 124 employers in Piscataway, 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 United Electric Supply - Lancaster 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6340-VIKING-001020_US_S0478 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR CONSOLIDATED ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTORS #6448 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR KGP Warsaw2 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE America's Grow-A-Row Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE NAES : Red Oak Power 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Woodbridge Energy Center 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Point Power Generation, LLC 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Global Technology Center, Colgate - Palmolive 1,042 FTE
CITY-NEAR Colgate-Palmolive Global Technology Center 978 FTE
CITY-NEAR Colgate-Palmolive Company 978 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ferraro Foods 733 FTE
NAT-TCR Hellman Electric LLC 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Zoological Society of Philadelphia 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ogemaw County Road Commission 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR County of Imperial 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Src Roofing, Inc. 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale McPherson 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE D & D Products Inc 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Poly Vinyl Roofing 22 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.