Employer · New Jersey

Merck-Rahway Cafe

Rahway, NJ · ~37 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merck-Rahway Cafe runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical industry workplace, earning a grade C.

Merck-Rahway Cafe: 2.6 TCR = 86% of industry BLS 3.0 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merck-Rahway Cafe safety composite

Merck-Rahway Cafe scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

Merck-Rahway Cafe: 0.0 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 2.02× in 2023

Merck-Rahway Cafe's TCR rose 5.2 from 0.0 in 2018 to 5.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Rahway, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.6 · 86% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #62/203
  • PHOTO SODEXO AT HCA MEMORI…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SODEXO AT HCA MEMORIAL SATILLA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merck-Rahway Cafe in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merck-Rahway Cafe averages 2.6 TCR (86% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Merck-Rahway Cafe TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=3.5 · 2020=0 · 2021=4.2 · 2023=5.2 · BLS 3.0

Where Merck-Rahway Cafe falls in its industry

6,952 industry establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #62 safest of 203 industry employers in New Jersey.

Merck-Rahway Cafe (37 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Merck-Rahway Cafe
Merck-Rahway Cafe (37 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Merck-Rahway Cafe has fewer employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2023 5.2 5.2 3 0 0
2021 4.2 4.2 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.5 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · NJ · Rahway

6,952 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 42 employers in Rahway, 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 SODEXO AT HCA MEMORIAL SATILLA 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT HCA STONESPRINGS HOSPITAL 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR TX ST CFA 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR BCATS GENERAL CONCES 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE MCT Dairies, INC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bergen Generating Station 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Parkway Generation- Peaking 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Logan Generating Plant 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rahway, NJ Facility 4,475 FTE
CITY-NEAR RWJ University Hospital Rahway 865 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wytech Industries LLC 227 FTE
CITY-NEAR Guest Packaging (Rahway) 202 FTE
NAT-TCR Memorial Hermann Cypress 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR HSTNTX07 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR O'Neal Steel Incorporated_Jackson 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Hudson Valley Rehabilitation & Extended Care Center 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE South Windsor Public Schools 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE At&T Eecc-F&B 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE St Johnland Nursing Center 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Siena Heights Univ* 37 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: 2023, 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.