Novelties merchant wholesalers · New Jersey

East Coast News NJ

Hightstown, NJ · ~82 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

East Coast News NJ runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Novelties merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

East Coast News NJ: 2.0 TCR = 90% of Novelties merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

East Coast News NJ safety composite

East Coast News NJ scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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

−3.8

2020→2024

East Coast News NJ injury rate improved

East Coast News NJ's TCR fell 3.8 from 3.8 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=3.8 · 2021=2.4 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424990 · Hightstown, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.0 · 90% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/17
  • PHOTO Kingdom Animalia dba…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~82 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kingdom Animalia dba Hourglass Cosmetics (0.0 TCR gap)

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East Coast News NJ in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows East Coast News NJ averages 2.0 TCR (90% of the Novelties merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

East Coast News NJ TCR series: 2020=3.8 · 2021=2.4 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where East Coast News NJ falls in its industry

301 Novelties merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 17 Novelties merchant wholesalers employers in New Jersey.

East Coast News NJ (82 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate East Coast News NJ
East Coast News NJ (82 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.4

East Coast News NJ has more employees than the Novelties merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2021 2.4 1.2 2 0 0
2020 3.8 2.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424990 · NJ · Hightstown

301 Novelties merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 7 employers in Hightstown, 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 Kingdom Animalia dba Hourglass Cosmetics 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Laker Fishing Tackle 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR FAC's Promotions, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SBD-52 TX 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE USA NJ Pennsauken 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mammoet Northern USA Inc. 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bordentown NJ - Bai Brands 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE PEEQ Imaging 82 FTE
CITY-NEAR CCL Label 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR 333645-HIGHTSTOWN PO 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR HIGHTSTOWN_1366960 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR 307 HIGHTSTOWN, NJ 47 FTE
NAT-TCR Canyonville Burger King 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Springdale Processing 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR KI High Point, NC Plant 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Impossible Foods 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Longview Asphalt 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rapak- Indianapolis 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cascade Inn 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE DuBose Steel 82 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, 2021, 2020. 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.