Garbage collection services · New Jersey

Freehold Cartage Inc., Solid Waste

Freehold, NJ · ~81 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Freehold Cartage Inc., Solid Waste runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Garbage collection services workplace, earning a grade D.

Freehold Cartage Inc., Solid Waste: 4.6 TCR = 178% of Garbage collection services BLS 2.6 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Freehold Cartage Inc., Solid Waste safety composite

Freehold Cartage Inc., Solid Waste scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−5.7

2019→2024

Freehold Cartage Inc., Solid Waste injury rate improved

Freehold Cartage Inc., Solid Waste's TCR fell 5.7 from 6.8 in 2019 to 1.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 9.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=6.8 · 2020=5.7 · 2021=9.6 · 2022=2.4 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Freehold, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 178% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #16/70
  • PHOTO Mega Disposal
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~81 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mega Disposal (0.0 TCR gap)

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Freehold Cartage Inc., Solid Waste in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Freehold Cartage Inc., Solid Waste averages 4.6 TCR (178% of the Garbage collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Freehold Cartage Inc., Solid Waste TCR series: 2019=6.8 · 2020=5.7 · 2021=9.6 · 2022=2.4 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 2.6

Where Freehold Cartage Inc., Solid Waste falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage collection services establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 70 Garbage collection services employers in New Jersey.

Freehold Cartage Inc., Solid Waste (81 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Freehold Cartage Inc., Solid Waste
Freehold Cartage Inc., Solid Waste (81 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Freehold Cartage Inc., Solid Waste has more employees than the Garbage collection services median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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
2024 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2023 2.4 2.4 2 0 0
2022 2.4 2.4 2 0 0
2021 9.6 8.2 7 0 0
2020 5.7 4.6 5 0 0
2019 6.8 6.8 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · NJ · Freehold

2,322 Garbage collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 82 employers in Freehold, 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 Mega Disposal 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stericycle - Fresno,TX 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR AWS- Santa Clara County 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR S03457 - Columbus Hauling 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Raritan-Millstone/Canal Road Water Treatment Plant 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Jersey American Water-RM/Canal Road 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Conti Solar 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Old Fashioned Kitchen 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR CentraState Medical Center 1,962 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3236 314 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3236 301 FTE
CITY-NEAR IPLAY 291 FTE
NAT-TCR Mosaic Pittsburg 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Mosaic Waukon 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR San Diego PTF 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR DiNatale Construction, Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brown County Human Services 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fairleigh Feed Yard 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Meadows 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kre-Bsl Husket Niantic Operations LLC 81 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.