Bus line operation, intercity · New Jersey

Ironbound Garage

Newark, NJ · ~416 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ironbound Garage runs at 188% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bus line operation, intercity workplace, earning a grade D.

Ironbound Garage: 8.5 TCR = 188% of Bus line operation, intercity BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ironbound Garage safety composite

Ironbound 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.44 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

Ironbound Garage: 5.8 → 11.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.23× in 2024

Ironbound Garage's TCR rose 5.4 from 5.8 in 2023 to 11.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 8.5 · 188% of ind

  • DART 10.4 DART
  • RANK #29/36
  • PHOTO Greyhound Lines, INC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 70 inj
  • SIZE ~416 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Greyhound Lines, INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ironbound Garage in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ironbound Garage averages 8.5 TCR (188% 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

Ironbound Garage TCR series: 2023=5.8 · 2024=11.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Ironbound Garage falls in its industry

161 Bus line operation, intercity establishments

Safer than 16% 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 #29 safest of 36 Bus line operation, intercity employers in New Jersey.

Ironbound Garage (416 employees, TCR 8.5) 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 Ironbound Garage
Ironbound Garage (416 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Ironbound 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 11.2 10.4 47 0 0
2023 5.8 5.8 23 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 Greyhound Lines, INC 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 55567 Las Vegas RACC 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2453-00060388-60388 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 8439_19218 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE 7208_16618 416 FTE
STATE-SIZE NJ0533CBC 416 FTE
STATE-SIZE NJ16BBU 416 FTE
STATE-SIZE Topgolf Edison 416 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 Paris 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lexington Clinic South Broadway 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR WNY Independent Living, Inc. 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Allina Health Farmington Clinic 8.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE XALT Energy, LLC 416 FTE
NAT-SIZE TS Trim Industries Inc. 416 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tnver - La Vergne Hub 416 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mt Vernon 416 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.