Home centers, building materials · New Jersey

Kuiken Brothers Company- Garfield

Garfield, NJ · ~31 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kuiken Brothers Company- Garfield runs at 256% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Home centers, building materials workplace, earning a grade F.

Kuiken Brothers Company- Garfield: 8.7 TCR = 256% of Home centers, building materials BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kuiken Brothers Company- Garfield safety composite

Kuiken Brothers Company- Garfield scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

−8.3

2018→2024

Kuiken Brothers Company- Garfield injury rate improved

Kuiken Brothers Company- Garfield's TCR fell 8.3 from 11.7 in 2018 to 3.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 22.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=11.7 · 2019=5.7 · 2020=22.5 · 2021=3.6 · 2022=7.2 · 2023=6.8 · 2024=3.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444110 · Garfield, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.7 · 256% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #143/152
  • PHOTO 1197 LOWE S OF WARWI…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1197 LOWE S OF WARWICK RI (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kuiken Brothers Company- Garfield in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kuiken Brothers Company- Garfield averages 8.7 TCR (256% of the Home centers, building materials BLS benchmark).

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

Kuiken Brothers Company- Garfield TCR series: 2018=11.7 · 2019=5.7 · 2020=22.5 · 2021=3.6 · 2022=7.2 · 2023=6.8 · 2024=3.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Kuiken Brothers Company- Garfield falls in its industry

6,309 Home centers, building materia establishments

Safer than 7% 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 #143 safest of 152 Home centers, building materia employers in New Jersey.

Kuiken Brothers Company- Garfield (31 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 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 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kuiken Brothers Company- Garfield
Kuiken Brothers Company- Garfield (31 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Kuiken Brothers Company- Garfield has fewer employees than the Home centers, building materials 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
2024 3.4 3.4 1 0 0
2023 6.8 6.8 2 0 0
2022 7.2 7.2 2 0 0
2021 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2020 22.5 19.3 7 0 0
2019 5.7 2.9 2 0 0
2018 11.7 8.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444110 · NJ · Garfield

6,309 Home centers, building materials employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 16 employers in Garfield, 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 1197 LOWE S OF WARWICK RI 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0425 LOWE S OF CHATTANOOGA TN 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2807-0616 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2807-2356 8.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Orsted - Newark 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Beacon Construction Services 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Neelam Construction Corp 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spiniello Companies - Livingston 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5752 505 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5752 428 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brimar Industries 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR 981 GARFIELD, NJ 89 FTE
NAT-TCR Little Sisters of the Poor 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR CAL022 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Kelley Manufacturing Co. 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Kre-Bsl Husky Falls Operation LLC 8.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE TSI Solutions 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE APC - Arion 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Studio Moulding, Inc. 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Quality Group, Inc 31 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, 2021, 2020, 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.