Wood floor finishing (e.g., coating, sanding) · New Jersey

Essex Finishing

Avenel, NJ · ~30 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Essex Finishing runs at 171% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Wood floor finishing (e.g., coating, sanding) workplace, earning a grade D.

Essex Finishing: 4.8 TCR = 171% of Wood floor finishing (e.g., coating, sanding) BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Essex Finishing safety composite

Essex Finishing scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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).

D

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

TCR Δ

−9.6

2023→2024

Essex Finishing injury rate improved

Essex Finishing's TCR fell 9.6 from 9.6 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=9.6 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238330 · Avenel, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 171% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #11/12
  • PHOTO Spectra Contract Flo…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Spectra Contract Flooring - Plant BZ/231 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Essex Finishing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Essex Finishing averages 4.8 TCR (171% of the Wood floor finishing (e.g., coating, sanding) BLS benchmark).

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

Essex Finishing TCR series: 2023=9.6 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Essex Finishing falls in its industry

250 Wood floor finishing (e.g., co establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

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 12 Wood floor finishing (e.g., co employers in New Jersey.

Essex Finishing (30 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Essex Finishing
Essex Finishing (30 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Essex Finishing has fewer employees than the Wood floor finishing (e.g., coating, san median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 9.6 9.6 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238330 · NJ · Avenel

250 Wood floor finishing (e.g., coating, sanding) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 49 employers in Avenel, 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 Spectra Contract Flooring - Plant BZ/231 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant BZ 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spectra Contract Flooring - Plant A5/231 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR COS 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Washington TWP MUA 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Martin Group 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1127 - BELFOR Northern New Jersey NJ 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henkels & McCoy, Inc - Newark 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon Transportation Services : EWR5 2,469 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - EWR5 1,512 FTE
CITY-NEAR Global Specialty Fulfillment : EWR6 1,128 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - EWR7 728 FTE
NAT-TCR Garrety Glass 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Metalico Bradford 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Allstate Peterbilt Group of South St Paul 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ardagh Glass Inc Pevely 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Genesis Energy,L.P. - North Louisiana Trucking 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE 01019-01-01-WOODLAND 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bardes Plastics, Inc 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE 01054-01-01-DONALD 30 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.

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