Refrigerated products trucking, local · New Jersey

Garden State Freezer LLC

Pedricktown, NJ · ~38 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Garden State Freezer LLC runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Refrigerated products trucking, local workplace, earning a grade D.

Garden State Freezer LLC: 5.7 TCR = 126% of Refrigerated products trucking, local BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Garden State Freezer LLC safety composite

Garden State Freezer LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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).

F

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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 Freezer LLC: 5.0 → 7.2 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 7.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.27× in 2024

Garden State Freezer LLC's TCR rose 2.1 from 5.0 in 2021 to 7.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 7.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484220 · Pedricktown, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 126% of ind

  • DART 7.2 DART
  • RANK #14/18
  • PHOTO Advantage Tank Lines…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Advantage Tank Lines 20255 Seattle (0.0 TCR gap)

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Garden State Freezer LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Garden State Freezer LLC averages 5.7 TCR (126% of the Refrigerated products trucking, local BLS benchmark).

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

Garden State Freezer LLC TCR series: 2021=5 · 2022=7.8 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=7.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Garden State Freezer LLC falls in its industry

1,130 Refrigerated products trucking establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 18 Refrigerated products trucking employers in New Jersey.

Garden State Freezer LLC (38 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Garden State Freezer LLC
Garden State Freezer LLC (38 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Garden State Freezer LLC has fewer employees than the Refrigerated products trucking, local median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 7.2 7.2 3 0 0
2023 2.6 0.0 1 0 0
2022 7.8 7.8 3 0 0
2021 5.0 5.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484220 · NJ · Pedricktown

1,130 Refrigerated products trucking, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 20 employers in Pedricktown, 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 Advantage Tank Lines 20255 Seattle 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thurman Transportation, Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Good Transport Services, Inc 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Allan Gerke & Sons 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE South Jersey Gas-Waterford 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE JSH & Sons, LLC 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE NJN 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Paulsboro Refining Company 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jet.com FC-6922 794 FTE
CITY-NEAR 9042 393 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 9097 311 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goya South Jersey 238 FTE
NAT-TCR National Packaging Company, Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Humboldt Feed Mill 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Valley Oaks Care Center 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Transport Service 60159 Lakeland 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kamco Supply - Cranston, RI 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1049 - Owensboro 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE John Deere Regional Distribution Center - Lathrop 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5485 - Indianapolis West 38 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. 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.