Ducts, sheet metal, manufacturing · New Jersey

Dericks Sheet Metal

Totowa, NJ · ~21 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dericks Sheet Metal runs at 132% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ducts, sheet metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Dericks Sheet Metal: 4.3 TCR = 132% of Ducts, sheet metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dericks Sheet Metal safety composite

Dericks Sheet Metal scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

Dericks Sheet Metal: 1.0 → 7.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Dericks Sheet Metal's TCR rose 6.7 from 1.0 in 2023 to 7.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332322 · Totowa, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 132% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #11/24
  • PHOTO Awnex, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Awnex, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dericks Sheet Metal in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dericks Sheet Metal averages 4.3 TCR (132% of the Ducts, sheet metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Dericks Sheet Metal TCR series: 2023=1 · 2024=7.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Dericks Sheet Metal falls in its industry

1,158 Ducts, sheet metal, manufactur establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 24 Ducts, sheet metal, manufactur employers in New Jersey.

Dericks Sheet Metal (21 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Dericks Sheet Metal
Dericks Sheet Metal (21 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Dericks Sheet Metal has fewer employees than the Ducts, sheet metal, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 7.7 0.0 2 0 0
2023 1.0 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332322 · NJ · Totowa

1,158 Ducts, sheet metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 44 employers in Totowa, 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 Awnex, Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Casa Grande Price Industries 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Age Metal Fabricating Co., Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR LV Thompson Inc 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE NAES : OM - Eagle Point 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE C.N. Renovation Co. Inc. DBA CNR Group 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Versatile Services LLC 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE 102152 - Bayonne Misc Job 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cibovita.Inc 759 FTE
CITY-NEAR NJ03 - Totowa Fulfillment Center 597 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harmon Totowa 8650 415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harmon Totowa 8650 8650 366 FTE
NAT-TCR 6090-St. Louis Hauling 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant 256 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Herbert Malarkey Roofing Company 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Tidwell Construction dba Tidwell Roofing & Sheet Metal 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ziggy's, Hayden, ID 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ziggy's, Lewiston, ID 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mikron Manufacturing,Inc. 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bodycote Thermal Processing, Inc. 21 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.