Home centers, building materials · New Jersey

Kuken Brothers Company- Emerson

Emerson, NJ · ~38 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kuken Brothers Company- Emerson runs at 187% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Home centers, building materials workplace, earning a grade D.

Kuken Brothers Company- Emerson: 6.4 TCR = 187% of Home centers, building materials BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kuken Brothers Company- Emerson safety composite

Kuken Brothers Company- Emerson scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Kuken Brothers Company- Emerson: 2.3 → 12.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 12.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.42× in 2024

Kuken Brothers Company- Emerson's TCR rose 9.7 from 2.3 in 2018 to 12.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 187% of ind

  • DART 9.0 DART
  • RANK #124/152
  • PHOTO 2010
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2010 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kuken Brothers Company- Emerson in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kuken Brothers Company- Emerson averages 6.4 TCR (187% 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

Kuken Brothers Company- Emerson TCR series: 2018=2.3 · 2019=0 · 2020=6.1 · 2021=9.3 · 2022=8.8 · 2023=6 · 2024=12 · BLS 3.4

Where Kuken Brothers Company- Emerson falls in its industry

6,309 Home centers, building materia establishments

Safer than 26% 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 #124 safest of 152 Home centers, building materia employers in New Jersey.

Kuken Brothers Company- Emerson (38 employees, TCR 6.4) 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 Kuken Brothers Company- Emerson
Kuken Brothers Company- Emerson (38 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Kuken Brothers Company- Emerson 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 12.0 9.0 4 0 0
2023 6.0 6.0 2 0 0
2022 8.8 8.8 3 0 0
2021 9.3 6.2 3 0 0
2020 6.1 3.0 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 2.3 2.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444110 · NJ · Emerson

6,309 Home centers, building materials employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 6 employers in Emerson, 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 2010 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR FAIRBORN OH - 3369 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR KALAMAZOO EAST MI - 3317 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3637 HENDERSONVILLE 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE South Jersey Gas-Waterford 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE JSH & Sons, LLC 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE NJN 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Paulsboro Refining Company 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR ShopRite Of Emerson # 117 144 FTE
CITY-NEAR STOP & SHOP 0812 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR 100812 108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brookdale Emerson 55 FTE
NAT-TCR ZETIN Contractors, LLC 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR IAD004 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Our Lady of Hope Health Center 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR East Walpole 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Proliant Biologicals - Boone 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE WISE Business forms 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE TexaScapes - Yard 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE WireCo WorldGroup Rosenberg 38 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.