Duct work (e.g., cooling, dust collection, exhaust, heating, ventilation) installation · New Jersey

Gerard Sheet Metal Fabricators Inc.

East Brunswick, NJ · ~27 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gerard Sheet Metal Fabricators Inc. runs at 33% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Duct work (e.g., cooling, dust collection, exhaust, heating, ventilation) installation workplace, earning a grade A.

Gerard Sheet Metal Fabricators Inc.: 0.9 TCR = 33% of Duct work (e.g., cooling, dust collection, exhaust, heating, ventilation) installation BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gerard Sheet Metal Fabricators Inc. safety composite

Gerard Sheet Metal Fabricators Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

Gerard Sheet Metal Fabricators Inc. injury rate improved

Gerard Sheet Metal Fabricators Inc.'s TCR fell 3.6 from 3.6 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.6 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=3.8 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · East Brunswick, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 33% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #14/84
  • PHOTO J.R. Barto Heating /…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: J.R. Barto Heating / Air-Conditioning / Sheet Metal, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gerard Sheet Metal Fabricators Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gerard Sheet Metal Fabricators Inc. averages 0.9 TCR (33% of the Duct work (e.g., cooling, dust collection, exhaust, heating, ventilation) installation BLS benchmark).

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

Gerard Sheet Metal Fabricators Inc. TCR series: 2017=3.6 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=3.8 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Gerard Sheet Metal Fabricators Inc. falls in its industry

5,793 Duct work (e.g., cooling, dust establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

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 84 Duct work (e.g., cooling, dust employers in New Jersey.

Gerard Sheet Metal Fabricators Inc. (27 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Gerard Sheet Metal Fabricators Inc.
Gerard Sheet Metal Fabricators Inc. (27 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Gerard Sheet Metal Fabricators Inc. has fewer employees than the Duct work (e.g., cooling, dust collectio median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.8 3.8 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 3.6 3.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · NJ · East Brunswick

5,793 Duct work (e.g., cooling, dust collection, exhaust, heating, ventilation) installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 59 employers in East Brunswick, 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 J.R. Barto Heating / Air-Conditioning / Sheet Metal, Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Edwards Engineering Inc 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR F.E. Moran, Inc Fire Protection of Northern Illinois 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Venture Mechanical Inc. 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE OCEAN SPRAY CRANBERRIES INC. - CHATSWORTH RECEIVING 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Concentric Group LLC 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pact Two, LLC 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Three Bridges-NYST 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Central New Jersey 1,648 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3078 334 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3078 332 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aculabs Inc 280 FTE
NAT-TCR Raynor Company Group 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR South Western Communications Corporate 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Center 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Petersburg Operations Center 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Metro Machine, Inc. 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Johnstone Supply Grand Rapids 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Turbine Standard - Headquarters 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Comfort Inn 27 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, 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.