Home health care agencies · New Jersey

JFK Meridian Home Care

Iselin, NJ · ~89 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.7
Avg TCR
5.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

JFK Meridian Home Care runs at 205% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Home health care agencies workplace, earning a grade F.

JFK Meridian Home Care: 10.7 TCR = 205% of Home health care agencies BLS 5.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

JFK Meridian Home Care safety composite

JFK Meridian Home Care scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−6.9

2021→2024

JFK Meridian Home Care injury rate improved

JFK Meridian Home Care's TCR fell 6.9 from 14.1 in 2021 to 7.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 191.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=14.1 · 2023=191.8 · 2024=7.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621610 · Iselin, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.7 · 205% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #173/196
  • PHOTO Continuous Home Care
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~89 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Continuous Home Care (0.0 TCR gap)

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JFK Meridian Home Care in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows JFK Meridian Home Care averages 10.7 TCR (205% of the Home health care agencies BLS benchmark).

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

JFK Meridian Home Care TCR series: 2021=14.1 · 2023=191.8 · 2024=7.2 · BLS 5.2

Where JFK Meridian Home Care falls in its industry

3,635 Home health care agencies establishments

Safer than 10% 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 #173 safest of 196 Home health care agencies employers in New Jersey.

JFK Meridian Home Care (89 employees, TCR 10.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate JFK Meridian Home Care
JFK Meridian Home Care (89 employees, TCR 10.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

JFK Meridian Home Care has more employees than the Home health care agencies 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 7.2 5.8 5 0 0
2023 191.8 191.8 1 0 0
2021 14.1 12.7 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621610 · NJ · Iselin

3,635 Home health care agencies employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 20 employers in Iselin, 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 Continuous Home Care 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hospice of Iredell County 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0735 - NHS 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Interim Healthcare of Kansas City 10.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE ACE-Glassboro Operations 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Jersey American Water - Short Hills 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE G.E. Mechanical, LLC 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE VBS - NJX 89 FTE
CITY-NEAR USA - Iselin, S Wood 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR Metropark Facility 304 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2636-NEW JERSEY.ISELIN 271 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harvard Services Group of NJ 230 FTE
NAT-TCR PPD USA Inc 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Gaair - Airport Hub 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Libertyville Fire Department 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Prov-La-St Johns Hth 10.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Carolina SeniorCare 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross Construction Inc 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Great Western Buildings 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harwood Place 89 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, 2021. 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.