Vehicle lift installation · New Jersey

First Choice Auto - Hillsborough Location

Name: First Choice Auto - Hillsborough Location Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Hillsborough, NJ · ~22 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 6.7
Avg TCR: 2.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

First Choice Auto - Hillsborough Location runs at 238% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Vehicle lift installation workplace, earning a grade F.

First Choice Auto - Hillsborough Location: 6.7 TCR = 238% of Vehicle lift installation BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Choice Auto - Hillsborough Location safety composite

First Choice Auto - Hillsborough Location scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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).

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 6.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

−4.9

2023→2024

First Choice Auto - Hillsborough Location injury rate improved

First Choice Auto - Hillsborough Location's TCR fell 4.9 from 9.1 in 2023 to 4.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=9.1 · 2024=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238290 · Hillsborough, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 238% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #26/28
PHOTO D&H UNITED FUELING S…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: D&H UNITED FUELING SOLUTIONS, INC - EL PASO TX (0.0 TCR gap)

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Satellites Unl

6.8
B&E Constructi

6.8
This site

6.7
D&H UNITED FUE

6.7
McCown Crafted

6.7

What this shows First Choice Auto - Hillsborough Location averages 6.7 TCR (238% of the Vehicle lift installation BLS benchmark).

First Choice Auto - Hillsborough Location TCR series: 2023=9.1 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 2.8

Where First Choice Auto - Hillsborough Location falls in its industry

1,138 Vehicle lift installation establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 28 Vehicle lift installation employers in New Jersey.

First Choice Auto - Hillsborough Location (22 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 2.0

First Choice Auto - Hillsborough Location has fewer employees than the Vehicle lift installation median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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	4.2	0.0	1	0	0
2023	9.1	9.1	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238290 · NJ · Hillsborough

1,138 Vehicle lift installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 48 employers in Hillsborough, NJ · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	D&H UNITED FUELING SOLUTIONS, INC - EL PASO TX	EL PASO, TX	6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	McCown Crafted Inc.	UNION GAP, WA	6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Satellites Unlimited, LLC	BIRMINGHAM, AL	6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	B&E Construction Inc	EAGLE GROVE, IA	6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	America's Grow-A-Row Inc.	PITTSTOWN	22 FTE
STATE-SIZE	NAES : Red Oak Power	SAYREVILLE	22 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Woodbridge Energy Center	KEASBEY	22 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Eagle Point Power Generation, LLC	WESTVILLE	22 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Eastern Janitorial Services	Hillsborough	692 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Landscape Maintenance Services, Inc.	Hillsborough	364 FTE
CITY-NEAR	RB Manufacturing LLC	Hillsborough	286 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Shop Rite of Hillsborough	Hillsborough	282 FTE
NAT-TCR	Sacramento Holiday Inn	Sacramento, CA	6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Beltrami County - County Administration Building	Bemidji, MN	6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Boucher Brothers West Coast LLC	Miami Beach, FL	6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Glass & Mirror Inc.	Blaine, MN	6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Mid States Transport, Inc.	Sioux Falls, SD	22 FTE
NAT-SIZE	ABB Inc Evansville Service Center	Evansville, IN	22 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Emerald Glass, Inc	Burlington, WA	22 FTE
NAT-SIZE	EnerStar Electric Cooperative	Paris, IL	22 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.