Skilled nursing facilities · New Jersey

Merwick Care and Rehabilitation Center

Plainsboro, NJ · ~154 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merwick Care and Rehabilitation Center runs at 44% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Skilled nursing facilities workplace, earning a grade A.

Merwick Care and Rehabilitation Center: 2.8 TCR = 44% of Skilled nursing facilities BLS 6.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merwick Care and Rehabilitation Center safety composite

Merwick Care and Rehabilitation Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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).

C

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Merwick Care and Rehabilitation Center: 0.0 → 5.4 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 5.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.43× in 2019

Merwick Care and Rehabilitation Center's TCR rose 5.4 from 0.0 in 2016 to 5.4 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Plainsboro, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 2.8 · 44% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #41/370
  • PHOTO Oakland Heights
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~154 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Oakland Heights (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merwick Care and Rehabilitation Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merwick Care and Rehabilitation Center averages 2.8 TCR (44% of the Skilled nursing facilities BLS benchmark).

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

Merwick Care and Rehabilitation Center TCR series: 2016=0 · 2018=3.1 · 2019=5.4 · BLS 6.5

Where Merwick Care and Rehabilitation Center falls in its industry

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #41 safest of 370 Skilled nursing facilities employers in New Jersey.

Merwick Care and Rehabilitation Center (154 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Merwick Care and Rehabilitation Center
Merwick Care and Rehabilitation Center (154 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Merwick Care and Rehabilitation Center has more employees than the Skilled nursing facilities median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.6. 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
2019 5.4 4.0 8 0 0
2018 3.1 1.2 5 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · NJ · Plainsboro

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 17 employers in Plainsboro, 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 Oakland Heights 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR BOCA CIEGA Center 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Bluffs Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Warren Barr Buffalo Grove 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brian Trematore Plumbing & Heating, Inc. 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bind Rite Robbinsville LLC 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hovione Technology Transfer Center 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sika Corporation 875 Valley Brook Ave 154 FTE
CITY-NEAR Location 2000 4,981 FTE
CITY-NEAR NNI North America Home Office location 4,823 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novo Nordisk Inc. 3,125 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Medical Center At Princeton 2,622 FTE
NAT-TCR Stanley Black and Decker - Allentown 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Jefferson North Assembly Plant 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sansum Clinic Patterson 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant 2 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Van Nuys District HDQ 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE SwedishAmerican Health System-Camelot 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rite Hite Products - Horn Lake 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vectorply Corporation 154 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: 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.