Clothing, men's and boys', merchant wholesalers · Connecticut

NEJ, Inc. Waterbury

Waterbury, CT · ~186 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

NEJ, Inc. Waterbury runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Clothing, men's and boys', merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

NEJ, Inc. Waterbury: 0.9 TCR = 39% of Clothing, men's and boys', merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NEJ, Inc. Waterbury safety composite

NEJ, Inc. Waterbury scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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

−1.6

2016→2018

NEJ, Inc. Waterbury injury rate improved

NEJ, Inc. Waterbury's TCR fell 1.6 from 1.6 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 1.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.6 · 2017=1.0 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424320 · Waterbury, CT AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 39% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P84
  • PHOTO The Hillman Group : …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~186 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Hillman Group : Shannon DC, GA (0.0 TCR gap)

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NEJ, Inc. Waterbury in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NEJ, Inc. Waterbury averages 0.9 TCR (39% of the Clothing, men's and boys', merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

NEJ, Inc. Waterbury TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2017=1 · 2018=0 · BLS 2.2

Where NEJ, Inc. Waterbury falls in its industry

50 Clothing, men's and boys', mer establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
NEJ, Inc. Waterbury (186 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 213 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate NEJ, Inc. Waterbury
NEJ, Inc. Waterbury (186 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 213 employees and a TCR of 3.2

NEJ, Inc. Waterbury has fewer employees than the Clothing, men's and boys', merchant whol median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 1.0 1.0 3 0 0
2016 1.6 1.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424320 · CT · Waterbury

50 Clothing, men's and boys', merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 218 employers in Waterbury, CT · 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 The Hillman Group : Shannon DC, GA 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seminole Location 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR PIS DIX 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Puerto Rico 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brookfield Site 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1955 - Orange 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western CT Health Network Inc 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Town of Tolland 186 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Mary's Hospital 1,654 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waterbury Hospital 1,472 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hartford-Saint Mary's Hospital 1,292 FTE
CITY-NEAR Naugatuck Valley Community College 1,277 FTE
NAT-TCR Hodge Mill 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Battelle - Pueblo Operations 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Blue Grass Golden Corral - Winchester 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Express Scripts Pharmacy, Inc. Columbus OH 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Crane Interiors Inc 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE De Nora Tech Chardon 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE VT Hackney, Inc. 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Milwaukee Scrap 186 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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