Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing · New Jersey

Ethicon Somerville

Somerville, NJ · ~2,125 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ethicon Somerville runs at 14% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Ethicon Somerville: 0.5 TCR = 14% of Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ethicon Somerville safety composite

Ethicon Somerville scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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%).

Ethicon Somerville held a steady TCR band

Ethicon Somerville's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.3 in 2016 to 0.4 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 0.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.3 · 2017=0.6 · 2018=0.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339113 · Somerville, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 14% of ind

  • DART 0.1 DART
  • RANK #3/27
  • PHOTO Baril, Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~2,125 FTE

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

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Ethicon Somerville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ethicon Somerville averages 0.5 TCR (14% of the Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ethicon Somerville TCR series: 2016=0.3 · 2017=0.6 · 2018=0.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Ethicon Somerville falls in its industry

555 Surgical and Medical Instrumen establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 27 Surgical and Medical Instrumen employers in New Jersey.

Ethicon Somerville (2,125 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Ethicon Somerville
Ethicon Somerville (2,125 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Ethicon Somerville has more employees than the Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufact median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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
2018 0.4 0.1 8 1 0
2017 0.6 0.3 13 1 0
2016 0.3 0.1 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339113 · NJ · Somerville

555 Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 19 employers in Somerville, 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 Baril, Inc. 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cardinal Health Hazelwood R&D 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR STANLEY Healthcare 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boston Scientific 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE HARRAH'S ATLANTIC CITY 2,124 FTE
STATE-SIZE BDMNNJ11 - AT&T Services, Inc. 2,121 FTE
STATE-SIZE 333869-NEW JERSEY NDC 2,118 FTE
STATE-SIZE NJLAW - LAWNSIDE 2,108 FTE
CITY-NEAR RWJ University Hospital Somerset 2,018 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ethicon US Somerville 710 FTE
CITY-NEAR #470 Branchburg Shoprite 238 FTE
CITY-NEAR #468 Somerville Shoprite 222 FTE
NAT-TCR S05731 - Salt Lake MRF 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Dynalectric Company VA 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR GBS I-Tech 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Broadway Office Center 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital (Houston, TX) 2,124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lockheed Martin Corporation US NY Syracuse Electroncs Pkwy (1021) 2,126 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dallas/Fort Worth Airport Hub (Txdfa) 2,123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Textron Aviation - East Campus (Beechcraft) 2,122 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.