Chemical gases merchant wholesalers · New Jersey

Lopatcong

Phillipsburg, NJ · ~40 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lopatcong runs at 169% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Chemical gases merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Lopatcong: 3.7 TCR = 169% of Chemical gases merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lopatcong safety composite

Lopatcong scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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

−18.6

2018→2024

Lopatcong injury rate improved

Lopatcong's TCR fell 18.6 from 18.6 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 18.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=18.6 · 2019=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Phillipsburg, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.7 · 169% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #13/21
  • PHOTO Great Lakes Elkhart
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Great Lakes Elkhart (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lopatcong in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lopatcong averages 3.7 TCR (169% of the Chemical gases merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Lopatcong TCR series: 2018=18.6 · 2019=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Lopatcong falls in its industry

766 Chemical gases merchant wholes establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 21 Chemical gases merchant wholes employers in New Jersey.

Lopatcong (40 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Lopatcong
Lopatcong (40 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Lopatcong has more employees than the Chemical gases merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 18.6 14.9 20 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · NJ · Phillipsburg

766 Chemical gases merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 56 employers in Phillipsburg, 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 Great Lakes Elkhart 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Great Lakes Cincinnati Dayton Rd 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Catalyst Oilfield Services, 2016, LLC 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR JCI Torrance 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE MATHIS 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carneys Point Generating Plant 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE ACE- West Creek Operations 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE NJC 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Warren Hospital 637 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2497 385 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2497 337 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bihler of America, Inc 336 FTE
NAT-TCR Washington State Dept of Natural Resources - Webster Nursery 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 032k - St Cloud Mn Rntl 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Amcrete, LLC. 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Snow Electrical, Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Branch #1 Wichita 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3355 NW 114th Street Miami FL 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE CC&F Retail, Inc (dba Coffee Cup #10) 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Performance Roofing LLC 40 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, 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.