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

Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation - West Orange

West Orange, NJ · ~792 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.5
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation - West Orange runs at 224% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Rehabilitation hospitals (except alcoholism, drug addiction) workplace, earning a grade F.

Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation - West Orange: 8.5 TCR = 224% of Rehabilitation hospitals (except alcoholism, drug addiction) BLS 3.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation - West Orange safety composite

Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation - West Orange scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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 8.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation - West Orange: 7.4 → 8.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.66× in 2024

Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation - West Orange's TCR rose 1.4 from 7.4 in 2017 to 8.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622310 · West Orange, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.5 · 224% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #23/31
  • PHOTO Encompass Health Reh…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 330 inj
  • SIZE ~792 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Erie (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation - West Orange in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation - West Orange averages 8.5 TCR (224% 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 - West Orange TCR series: 2017=7.4 · 2018=9.3 · 2019=7.7 · 2020=8.6 · 2022=7.8 · 2023=9.9 · 2024=8.8 · BLS 3.8

Where Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation - West Orange falls in its industry

1,390 Rehabilitation hospitals (exce establishments

Safer than 19% 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 #23 safest of 31 Rehabilitation hospitals (exce employers in New Jersey.

Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation - West Orange (792 employees, TCR 8.5) 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 - West Orange
Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation - West Orange (792 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 5.4

Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation - West Orange 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
2024 8.8 5.6 50 0 0
2023 9.9 6.1 55 0 0
2022 7.8 5.3 42 1 0
2020 8.6 6.0 43 6 0
2019 7.7 5.5 45 0 0
2018 9.3 6.3 55 0 0
2017 7.4 3.2 40 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622310 · NJ · West Orange

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 · 29 employers in West Orange, 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 Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Erie 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Surgical Specialty Center of Baton Rouge 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4837-9137 St Lukes Rehab 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Littleton 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE I.S. PARSIPPANY (NJPRS) 792 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate Headquarters 791 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jet.com FC-6922 794 FTE
STATE-SIZE EOH Acquisition Group 790 FTE
CITY-NEAR SBC Management Corporation 3,172 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shop Rite of Essex Green 396 FTE
CITY-NEAR 10265 West Orange Plaza 227 FTE
CITY-NEAR Livingston Services Corp 199 FTE
NAT-TCR Stericycle - Eagan,MN 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Fontana 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lovell Wyoming Facility 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR S03881 - Allentown 8.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE South Gate, CA - 5650 Southern 792 FTE
NAT-SIZE Iowa Premium 792 FTE
NAT-SIZE Management Office 792 FTE
NAT-SIZE Natchitoches Regional Medical Center 792 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, 2022, 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.