Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers · New Jersey

General Trading Co. Inc.

Carlstadt, NJ · ~295 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

General Trading Co. Inc. runs at 377% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

General Trading Co. Inc.: 8.3 TCR = 377% of Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

General Trading Co. Inc. safety composite

General Trading Co. Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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

−3.6

2017→2024

General Trading Co. Inc. injury rate improved

General Trading Co. Inc.'s TCR fell 3.6 from 6.7 in 2017 to 3.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 15.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=6.7 · 2018=9.9 · 2019=9.1 · 2021=10.4 · 2022=15.5 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Carlstadt, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 377% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #41/55
  • PHOTO Quality Custom Distr…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 167 inj
  • SIZE ~295 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Quality Custom Distribution - FON (0.0 TCR gap)

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General Trading Co. Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows General Trading Co. Inc. averages 8.3 TCR (377% of the Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

General Trading Co. Inc. TCR series: 2017=6.7 · 2018=9.9 · 2019=9.1 · 2021=10.4 · 2022=15.5 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=3 · BLS 2.2

Where General Trading Co. Inc. falls in its industry

1,651 Groceries, general-line, merch establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #41 safest of 55 Groceries, general-line, merch employers in New Jersey.

General Trading Co. Inc. (295 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate General Trading Co. Inc.
General Trading Co. Inc. (295 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

General Trading Co. Inc. has more employees than the Groceries, general-line, merchant wholes median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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 3.0 1.9 8 0 0
2023 3.4 3.4 9 0 0
2022 15.5 13.9 39 0 0
2021 10.4 9.3 28 0 0
2019 9.1 9.1 29 0 0
2018 9.9 8.3 30 1 0
2017 6.7 5.8 24 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · NJ · Carlstadt

1,651 Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 78 employers in Carlstadt, 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 Quality Custom Distribution - FON 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mechanicsville, VA DC 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Frederick MD 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Mexico Food 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wenner Bakery-New Jersey Facility 295 FTE
STATE-SIZE Diagnostica Stago Inc 295 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shoprite of Waretown 295 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meridian Subacute Rehab - Wall 295 FTE
CITY-NEAR TRIBECA OVEN 362 FTE
CITY-NEAR Safway Atlantic, LLC - New Jersey 303 FTE
CITY-NEAR Unimac Graphics, LLC 227 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - DJZ2 187 FTE
NAT-TCR Markley Operator LLC 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Modesto CA 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Milwaukee - Pipe 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Swaggerty's Sausage 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Custom Apple Packers Quincy 295 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 1306 295 FTE
NAT-SIZE Senior Metal Bellows 295 FTE
NAT-SIZE 324 - S Pennsylvania Ave Lansing 295 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.