Brass products, rolling, drawing, or extruding, made from purchased copper or in integrated secondary smelting and rolling, drawing or extruding plants · New Jersey

Kearny Smelting & Refining Corp

Kearny, NJ · ~25 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kearny Smelting & Refining Corp runs at 150% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Brass products, rolling, drawing, or extruding, made from purchased copper or in integrated secondary smelting and rolling, drawing or extruding plants workplace, earning a grade D.

Kearny Smelting & Refining Corp: 5.0 TCR = 150% of Brass products, rolling, drawing, or extruding, made from purchased copper or in integrated secondary smelting and rolling, drawing or extruding plants BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kearny Smelting & Refining Corp safety composite

Kearny Smelting & Refining Corp scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.3

2018→2019

Kearny Smelting & Refining Corp injury rate improved

Kearny Smelting & Refining Corp's TCR fell 3.3 from 6.6 in 2018 to 3.3 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=6.6 · 2019=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331420 · Kearny, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 150% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #4/6
  • PHOTO Polymet
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Polymet (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kearny Smelting & Refining Corp in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kearny Smelting & Refining Corp averages 5.0 TCR (150% of the Brass products, rolling, drawing, or extruding, made from purchased copper or in integrated secondary smelting and rolling, drawing or extruding plants BLS benchmark).

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

Kearny Smelting & Refining Corp TCR series: 2018=6.6 · 2019=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Kearny Smelting & Refining Corp falls in its industry

198 Brass products, rolling, drawi establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 6 Brass products, rolling, drawi employers in New Jersey.

Kearny Smelting & Refining Corp (25 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kearny Smelting & Refining Corp
Kearny Smelting & Refining Corp (25 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Kearny Smelting & Refining Corp has fewer employees than the Brass products, rolling, drawing, or ext median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2019 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2018 6.6 6.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331420 · NJ · Kearny

198 Brass products, rolling, drawing, or extruding, made from purchased copper or in integrated secondary smelting and rolling, drawing or extruding plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 87 employers in Kearny, 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 Polymet 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cerro Flow Products, LLC - Shelbina 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Republic Wire, Inc 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Wire - Bremen Indiana Operations 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bayonne NJ 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vaspro, LLC 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Servpro of Cape May and Cumberland Counties 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atlantic Concrete Cutting Inc. 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR 335980-DVD BLDG NJ P&DC 1,456 FTE
CITY-NEAR DOMINICK V DANIELS_1441053 1,234 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5447 760 FTE
CITY-NEAR 335978-GREATER NEWARK NJ P&DC 716 FTE
NAT-TCR Holaday Circuits, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Long Term Acute Care Hospital Mosaic Life Care at St. Joseph 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Clewiston Operations 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ot-Hhh1-Spring Arbor Thomasville 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 55 Portway 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Off Broadway Apartments 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gale Nurseries Inc 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heitkotter, Inc. 25 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.