Cold storage warehousing · New Jersey

Garden State Cold Storage C

Carteret, NJ · ~67 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Garden State Cold Storage C runs at 59% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cold storage warehousing workplace, earning a grade B.

Garden State Cold Storage C: 3.4 TCR = 59% of Cold storage warehousing BLS 5.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Garden State Cold Storage C safety composite

Garden State Cold Storage C scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Garden State Cold Storage C: 1.6 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.52× in 2024

Garden State Cold Storage C's TCR rose 3.5 from 1.6 in 2023 to 5.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493120 · Carteret, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.4 · 59% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #19/39
  • PHOTO WM 6059
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WM 6059 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Garden State Cold Storage C in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Garden State Cold Storage C averages 3.4 TCR (59% of the Cold storage warehousing BLS benchmark).

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

Garden State Cold Storage C TCR series: 2023=1.6 · 2024=5.2 · BLS 5.8

Where Garden State Cold Storage C falls in its industry

1,039 Cold storage warehousing establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 39 Cold storage warehousing employers in New Jersey.

Garden State Cold Storage C (67 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Garden State Cold Storage C
Garden State Cold Storage C (67 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Garden State Cold Storage C has fewer employees than the Cold storage warehousing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 5.2 5.2 3 0 0
2023 1.6 1.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493120 · NJ · Carteret

1,039 Cold storage warehousing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 37 employers in Carteret, 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 WM 6059 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northwest Distribution and Storage, Inc 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6091 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6042 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gloucester 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atlantic Capes Fisheries 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Duke Farms Foundation 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE PSEG Power ER&T 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : EWR9 3,039 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - EWR9 2,771 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - CDW5 1,135 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cosmax USA 685 FTE
NAT-TCR CA-Montebello S/C 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR STR0054 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR STR0295 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Mike Hooks LLC 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE STR0284 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE ARIA Logistics LLC 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Direct Coil USA, Inc 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Laredo Rehabilitation Hospital, LLC 67 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.