Solid waste combustors and incinerators · New Jersey

Covanta Union, LLC

Rahway, NJ · ~59 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Covanta Union, LLC runs at 21% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Solid waste combustors and incinerators workplace, earning a grade A.

Covanta Union, LLC: 0.6 TCR = 21% of Solid waste combustors and incinerators BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Covanta Union, LLC safety composite

Covanta Union, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

Covanta Union, LLC: 0.0 → 1.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 1.6 TCR · DART/TCR 2.98× in 2019

Covanta Union, LLC's TCR rose 1.6 from 0.0 in 2017 to 1.6 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 2.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562213 · Rahway, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 21% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #1/5
  • PHOTO Covanta Huntsville, …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Covanta Huntsville, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Covanta Union, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Covanta Union, LLC averages 0.6 TCR (21% of the Solid waste combustors and incinerators BLS benchmark).

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

Covanta Union, LLC TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=1.6 · BLS 2.6

Where Covanta Union, LLC falls in its industry

74 Solid waste combustors and inc establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 5 Solid waste combustors and inc employers in New Jersey.

Covanta Union, LLC (59 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Covanta Union, LLC
Covanta Union, LLC (59 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Covanta Union, LLC has more employees than the Solid waste combustors and incinerators median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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
2019 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562213 · NJ · Rahway

74 Solid waste combustors and incinerators employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 42 employers in Rahway, 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 Covanta Huntsville, Inc. 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Covanta Onondaga Limited Partnership 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Covanta Hillsborough, Inc. 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Covanta Lee, Inc. 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Glassboro Facility 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advance Scale Company 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eastern Contractor Services #845 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE R & R Construction Co., Inc. 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rahway, NJ Facility 4,475 FTE
CITY-NEAR RWJ University Hospital Rahway 865 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wytech Industries LLC 227 FTE
CITY-NEAR Guest Packaging (Rahway) 202 FTE
NAT-TCR Consolidated Metco - Corporate Office 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pasadena 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Fairgrounds YMCA 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR CM006 East Side Access 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE CS Wholesale Grocers : Mauldin, SC (FDC) 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE VacVision Environmental, LLC 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boston Street Day Habilitation 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bear Trucking Inc 59 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.