Rehabilitation hospitals (except alcoholism, drug addiction) · New Jersey

Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation - Chester

Chester, NJ · ~282 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.4
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation - Chester runs at 194% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Rehabilitation hospitals (except alcoholism, drug addiction) workplace, earning a grade D.

Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation - Chester: 7.4 TCR = 194% of Rehabilitation hospitals (except alcoholism, drug addiction) BLS 3.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation - Chester safety composite

Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation - Chester scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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)
F 7.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

−3.7

2017→2021

Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation - Chester injury rate improved

Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation - Chester's TCR fell 3.7 from 8.4 in 2017 to 4.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 9.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.4 · 2018=6.0 · 2019=8.4 · 2020=9.6 · 2021=4.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622310 · Chester, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.4 · 194% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #20/31
  • PHOTO VHC Fresno 577
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 62 inj
  • SIZE ~282 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: VHC Fresno 577 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation - Chester in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation - Chester averages 7.4 TCR (194% of the Rehabilitation hospitals (except alcoholism, drug addiction) BLS benchmark).

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

Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation - Chester TCR series: 2017=8.4 · 2018=6 · 2019=8.4 · 2020=9.6 · 2021=4.6 · BLS 3.8

Where Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation - Chester falls in its industry

1,390 Rehabilitation hospitals (exce establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 31 Rehabilitation hospitals (exce employers in New Jersey.

Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation - Chester (282 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 5.4 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 Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation - Chester
Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation - Chester (282 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 5.4

Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation - Chester has more employees than the Rehabilitation hospitals (except alcohol median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.4. 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
2021 4.6 3.1 8 1 0
2020 9.6 9.6 9 9 0
2019 8.4 3.0 17 0 0
2018 6.0 3.0 12 0 0
2017 8.4 3.7 16 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622310 · NJ · Chester

1,390 Rehabilitation hospitals (except alcoholism, drug addiction) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 6 employers in Chester, 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 VHC Fresno 577 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6789 TX Rehab Hosp Arlington 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Select Specialty Hospital - Lexington, Inc. 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR H4628 CHATTANOOGA 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nordic Contracting Inc. 282 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bell Container Corp. 282 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6721 South Plainfield 282 FTE
STATE-SIZE R&D Altanova 282 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shop Rite of Chester 288 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation - Chester (Welkind) 283 FTE
CITY-NEAR R & R Construction Co., Inc. 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR HG1052 48 FTE
NAT-TCR Titusville-Baillie Lumber 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Downey Vendors, Inc 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Castek, Inc. 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Green Image, LLC dba GTI 7.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1324 Motor Parkway 282 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hope Fort Myers 282 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rio Vista Ave 282 FTE
NAT-SIZE FF-Arizona 282 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.