General freight trucking, local · New Jersey

Jake's Cartage, Inc.

Jersey City, NJ · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Jake's Cartage, Inc. runs at 183% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, local workplace, earning a grade D.

Jake's Cartage, Inc.: 8.2 TCR = 183% of General freight trucking, local BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Jake's Cartage, Inc. safety composite

Jake's Cartage, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

Jake's Cartage, Inc.: 0.0 → 16.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 16.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2018

Jake's Cartage, Inc.'s TCR rose 16.4 from 0.0 in 2017 to 16.4 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Jersey City, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.2 · 183% of ind

  • DART 8.2 DART
  • RANK #50/75
  • PHOTO Ward Trucking LLC-Sc…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ward Trucking LLC-Scranton (0.0 TCR gap)

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Jake's Cartage, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Jake's Cartage, Inc. averages 8.2 TCR (183% of the General freight trucking, local BLS benchmark).

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

Jake's Cartage, Inc. TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=16.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Jake's Cartage, Inc. falls in its industry

2,784 General freight trucking, loca establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #50 safest of 75 General freight trucking, loca employers in New Jersey.

Jake's Cartage, Inc. (20 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Jake's Cartage, Inc.
Jake's Cartage, Inc. (20 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Jake's Cartage, Inc. has fewer employees than the General freight trucking, local median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2018 16.4 8.2 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · NJ · Jersey City

2,784 General freight trucking, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 167 employers in Jersey City, 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 Ward Trucking LLC-Scranton 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rock Hill Trucking Co., Inc. 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dixon Transport 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR DCC : 5958-00 NAPA-BHC-DCC/Mt Joliet, TN 8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE 890 Charles St 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Point Power Generation Facility 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sayreville Power Plant 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lakewood Cogeneration 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kuehne + Nagel Inc CL 3,394 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jersey City Medical Center 2,710 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kuehne + Nagel Inc SAL 2,649 FTE
CITY-NEAR 333869-NEW JERSEY NDC 2,118 FTE
NAT-TCR Even Hotel Rockville 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Corporate Office 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR The Edgewater 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR David J. Thompson Mailing Corp. 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Republic Services of North Carolina (3186) 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE ODS East 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Omni Coummunity Health Lawenceburg 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Penta5usa 20 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: 2018, 2017. 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.