Building materials supply dealers · New Jersey

Kuiken Brothers Company- Newark

Newark, NJ · ~32 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kuiken Brothers Company- Newark runs at 317% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Building materials supply dealers workplace, earning a grade F.

Kuiken Brothers Company- Newark: 10.8 TCR = 317% of Building materials supply dealers BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kuiken Brothers Company- Newark safety composite

Kuiken Brothers Company- Newark scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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

−26.8

2019→2024

Kuiken Brothers Company- Newark injury rate improved

Kuiken Brothers Company- Newark's TCR fell 26.8 from 32.5 in 2019 to 5.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 32.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=32.5 · 2020=2.9 · 2021=5.3 · 2022=15.4 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=5.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444190 · Newark, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.8 · 317% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #34/40
  • PHOTO Shakopee Lumber Yard
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Shakopee Lumber Yard (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kuiken Brothers Company- Newark in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kuiken Brothers Company- Newark averages 10.8 TCR (317% of the Building materials supply dealers BLS benchmark).

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

Kuiken Brothers Company- Newark TCR series: 2019=32.5 · 2020=2.9 · 2021=5.3 · 2022=15.4 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=5.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Kuiken Brothers Company- Newark falls in its industry

1,643 Building materials supply deal establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 40 Building materials supply deal employers in New Jersey.

Kuiken Brothers Company- Newark (32 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Kuiken Brothers Company- Newark
Kuiken Brothers Company- Newark (32 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Kuiken Brothers Company- Newark has fewer employees than the Building materials supply dealers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 5.7 2.8 2 0 0
2023 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2022 15.4 12.8 6 0 0
2021 5.3 5.3 2 0 0
2020 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2019 32.5 16.2 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444190 · NJ · Newark

1,643 Building materials supply dealers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 356 employers in Newark, 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 Shakopee Lumber Yard 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR NV025 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Simonson Lumber - Fargo 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Champion Lumber Company 10.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE New Jersey Natural Gas - Atlantic Highlands 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Squan Wireless 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tracts unlimited 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE 7326_16863 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR EWR EWR 13,545 FTE
CITY-NEAR EWR - Airport United Airlines Offices 13,015 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-EWR 11,764 FTE
CITY-NEAR EWRPW9829 EWR - NON AA PAX SER 4,772 FTE
NAT-TCR CAN028 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR AZP023 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Versa-Fab Inc. 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Holz Rubber Company, Inc. 10.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Blue Giant LLC 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gorski engineering Inc. 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Engstrom & West, Inc. Dba Groza Construction 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 1093 32 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.