Bus line operation, intercity · New Jersey

Howell Garage

Newark, NJ · ~357 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Howell Garage runs at 206% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bus line operation, intercity workplace, earning a grade F.

Howell Garage: 9.3 TCR = 206% of Bus line operation, intercity BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Howell Garage safety composite

Howell Garage scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Howell Garage: 8.0 → 10.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.07× in 2024

Howell Garage's TCR rose 2.5 from 8.0 in 2023 to 10.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485210 · Newark, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.3 · 206% of ind

  • DART 9.9 DART
  • RANK #30/36
  • PHOTO Basin Transit Service
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 66 inj
  • SIZE ~357 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Basin Transit Service (0.1 TCR gap)

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Howell Garage in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Howell Garage averages 9.3 TCR (206% of the Bus line operation, intercity BLS benchmark).

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

Howell Garage TCR series: 2023=8 · 2024=10.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Howell Garage falls in its industry

161 Bus line operation, intercity establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 36 Bus line operation, intercity employers in New Jersey.

Howell Garage (357 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Howell Garage
Howell Garage (357 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Howell Garage has more employees than the Bus line operation, intercity median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 10.5 9.9 36 0 0
2023 8.0 7.5 30 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485210 · NJ · Newark

161 Bus line operation, intercity employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 356 employers in Newark, 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 Basin Transit Service 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jalbert Leasing, LLC 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Orange Garage 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hilton Garage 9.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE PISCATAWAY NJ 357 FTE
STATE-SIZE Omega Engineering - NJ 357 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2651 357 FTE
STATE-SIZE Joseph M. Sanzari Inc 356 FTE
CITY-NEAR EWR EWR 13,545 FTE
CITY-NEAR EWR - Airport United Airlines Offices 13,015 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-EWR 11,764 FTE
CITY-NEAR EWRPW9829 EWR - NON AA PAX SER 4,772 FTE
NAT-TCR Universal Truck Equipment 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR NY15530 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Roseville - Fire Department 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Wiair - Mke Air Gateway 9.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Red Bluff Millworks 357 FTE
NAT-SIZE John R. Jurgensen Company 357 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fllwa - Lakeland Center 357 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orpon - Swan Island Center 357 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.