General medical and surgical hospitals · New Jersey

Hackensack Meridian Health

North Bergen, NJ · ~1,543 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hackensack Meridian Health runs at 66% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade B.

Hackensack Meridian Health: 5.0 TCR = 66% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hackensack Meridian Health safety composite

Hackensack Meridian Health scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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)
D 4.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

−0.7

2016→2019

Hackensack Meridian Health injury rate improved

Hackensack Meridian Health's TCR fell 0.7 from 5.1 in 2016 to 4.4 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.4 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.1 · 2018=5.4 · 2019=4.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · North Bergen, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 5.0 · 66% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #24/101
  • PHOTO HF Physicians Dba HF…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 157 inj
  • SIZE ~1,543 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HF Physicians Dba HF Private Duty (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hackensack Meridian Health in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hackensack Meridian Health averages 5.0 TCR (66% of the General medical and surgical hospitals BLS benchmark).

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

Hackensack Meridian Health TCR series: 2016=5.1 · 2018=5.4 · 2019=4.4 · BLS 7.5

Where Hackensack Meridian Health falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 101 General medical and surgical h employers in New Jersey.

Hackensack Meridian Health (1,543 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 02,0004,0006,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hackensack Meridian Health
Hackensack Meridian Health (1,543 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Hackensack Meridian Health has more employees than the General medical and surgical hospitals median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2019 4.4 3.1 51 2 0
2018 5.4 3.2 58 0 0
2016 5.1 2.8 48 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · NJ · North Bergen

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 50 employers in North Bergen, 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 HF Physicians Dba HF Private Duty 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Essentia Health Moose Lake Hospital 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR MMC- Minocqua 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR HCA Florida Ocala Hospital 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE New Brunswick 1,555 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hackensack Meridian Health Mountainside Medical Center 1,518 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6458-METU 1,517 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bridgewater - Bausch Health 1,569 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palisades Medical Center 1,176 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3795 713 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3795 663 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bergen Logistics--NJ5903 North Bergen, NJ 325 FTE
NAT-TCR Neoteric Cosmetics, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Flp, LLC 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Tops 220 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 8301 Coastal Hwy 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Carrier Corporation (Collierville) 1,543 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amzl : Dla9 1,544 FTE
NAT-SIZE Columbus # 9119 1,544 FTE
NAT-SIZE Commercial HVAC Americas : MFG-La Crosse, WI-USA 1,542 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: 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.