Water distribution (except irrigation) · New Jersey

New Jersey American Water- Lawnside

Lawnside, NJ · ~101 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

New Jersey American Water- Lawnside runs at 343% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Water distribution (except irrigation) workplace, earning a grade F.

New Jersey American Water- Lawnside: 4.1 TCR = 343% of Water distribution (except irrigation) BLS 1.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

New Jersey American Water- Lawnside safety composite

New Jersey American Water- Lawnside scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

New Jersey American Water- Lawnside: 2.1 → 6.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.74× in 2024

New Jersey American Water- Lawnside's TCR rose 4.0 from 2.1 in 2023 to 6.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · Lawnside, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 4.1 · 343% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #26/33
  • PHOTO Hydratec, Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~101 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hydratec, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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New Jersey American Water- Lawnside in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows New Jersey American Water- Lawnside averages 4.1 TCR (343% of the Water distribution (except irrigation) BLS benchmark).

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

New Jersey American Water- Lawnside TCR series: 2023=2.1 · 2024=6.1 · BLS 1.2

Where New Jersey American Water- Lawnside falls in its industry

727 Water distribution (except irr establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 33 Water distribution (except irr employers in New Jersey.

New Jersey American Water- Lawnside (101 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate New Jersey American Water- Lawnside
New Jersey American Water- Lawnside (101 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

New Jersey American Water- Lawnside has more employees than the Water distribution (except irrigation) median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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
2024 6.1 3.0 6 0 1
2023 2.1 2.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · NJ · Lawnside

727 Water distribution (except irrigation) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 9 employers in Lawnside, 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 Hydratec, Inc 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Operations 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Des Moines Water Works 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Calaveras County Water District 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Haworth, NJ 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE OMNI Instrumentation Services 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE thyssenkrupp Elevator Corp Northern New Jersey 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Homasote Company 101 FTE
CITY-NEAR NJLAW - LAWNSIDE 2,108 FTE
CITY-NEAR LAWNSIDE (NJLAW) 1,750 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1149 LOWE S OF LAWNSIDE NJ 142 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2807-1149 125 FTE
NAT-TCR Milwaukee Cylinder 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Alfa Laval Inc. Broken Arrow (loc code: ALACEC) 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Float-on, LLC 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Silveira Farms 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mystic Scenic Studios 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advantage Controls, LLC 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Texas 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Secon Rubber and Plastics INC 101 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.