Meat markets · New Jersey

Forked River Butcher Shop

Forked River, NJ · ~56 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Forked River Butcher Shop runs at 138% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Meat markets workplace, earning a grade D.

Forked River Butcher Shop: 4.7 TCR = 138% of Meat markets BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Forked River Butcher Shop safety composite

Forked River Butcher Shop scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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)
C 4.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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%).

Forked River Butcher Shop held a steady TCR band

Forked River Butcher Shop's TCR held near 0.0 from 4.7 in 2020 to 4.7 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 4.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=4.7 · 2021=4.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445210 · Forked River, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 138% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Nueske's Applewood S…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats Store (0.1 TCR gap)

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Forked River Butcher Shop in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Forked River Butcher Shop averages 4.7 TCR (138% of the Meat markets BLS benchmark).

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

Forked River Butcher Shop TCR series: 2020=4.7 · 2021=4.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Forked River Butcher Shop falls in its industry

33 Meat markets establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.7.

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 4 Meat markets employers in New Jersey.

Forked River Butcher Shop (56 employees, TCR 4.7) among 23 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 5.7 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 24 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Forked River Butcher Shop
Forked River Butcher Shop (56 employees, TCR 4.7) among 23 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 5.7

Forked River Butcher Shop has more employees than the Meat markets median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.7. 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
2021 4.7 4.7 2 0 0
2020 4.7 4.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445210 · NJ · Forked River

33 Meat markets employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 12 employers in Forked River, 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 Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats Store 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Laudermilch Meats, Inc 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arnold's and Eddie's Foods, Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Neesvigs Duraform Lane 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cogen Technologies Linden Venture LP 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE ACE- Bridgeton Operations 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE ACE-Cape May Courthouse Operations 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hamilton Township Department of Water Pollution Control (Sewer) 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oyster Creek Generating Station 376 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Options Ocean County NJ 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1235 - Lacey Township 105 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0969 FORKED RIVER 96 FTE
NAT-TCR Abraham Lincoln Elementary 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR SPX Cooling Technologies 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ole Mexican Foods, Nashville 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR OCSD Financial & Adminstrative Services 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jackson, MS 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE mfg 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Premier Building Group Collective 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE 411 Austin Road 56 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: 2021, 2020. 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.