Irrigation system operation · New Jersey

New Jersey American Water - Short Hills

Short Hills, NJ · ~89 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

New Jersey American Water - Short Hills runs at 119% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Irrigation system operation workplace, earning a grade C.

New Jersey American Water - Short Hills: 1.4 TCR = 119% of Irrigation system operation BLS 1.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

New Jersey American Water - Short Hills safety composite

New Jersey American Water - Short Hills scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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%).

New Jersey American Water - Short Hills held a steady TCR band

New Jersey American Water - Short Hills's TCR held near 0.3 from 1.2 in 2016 to 0.9 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.2 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.2 · 2017=2.2 · 2018=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · Short Hills, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 1.4 · 119% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #10/33
  • PHOTO Artesian Water Compa…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~89 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Artesian Water Company, Inc.- Newark Establishment (0.0 TCR gap)

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New Jersey American Water - Short Hills in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows New Jersey American Water - Short Hills averages 1.4 TCR (119% of the Irrigation system operation BLS benchmark).

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

New Jersey American Water - Short Hills TCR series: 2016=1.2 · 2017=2.2 · 2018=0.9 · BLS 1.2

Where New Jersey American Water - Short Hills falls in its industry

727 Irrigation system operation establishments

Safer than 85% 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 #10 safest of 33 Irrigation system operation employers in New Jersey.

New Jersey American Water - Short Hills (89 employees, TCR 1.4) 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 - Short Hills
New Jersey American Water - Short Hills (89 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

New Jersey American Water - Short Hills has more employees than the Irrigation system operation 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
2018 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2017 2.2 0.0 2 0 0
2016 1.2 1.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · NJ · Short Hills

727 Irrigation system operation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 23 employers in Short Hills, 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 Artesian Water Company, Inc.- Newark Establishment 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kanawha Valley Ops Center 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Joint Municipal Water and Sewer Commission 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Warren County Water District 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE ACE-Glassboro Operations 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE G.E. Mechanical, LLC 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE VBS - NJX 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Precise Services Corp. 89 FTE
CITY-NEAR Short Hills 429 FTE
CITY-NEAR Short Hills 015 354 FTE
CITY-NEAR 72006 293 FTE
CITY-NEAR 71015 184 FTE
NAT-TCR Public Health 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR The Corinthians 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ashtabula 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Silgan Containers Waupun 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fortune Avenue 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE 33-CLEVELAND 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beaumont Aniline 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Parkview Nursing and Rehab 89 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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