Water treatment and distribution · New Jersey

New Jersey American Water-Shrewsbury

Shrewsbury, NJ · ~76 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

New Jersey American Water-Shrewsbury runs at 370% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Water treatment and distribution workplace, earning a grade F.

New Jersey American Water-Shrewsbury: 4.4 TCR = 370% of Water treatment and distribution BLS 1.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

New Jersey American Water-Shrewsbury safety composite

New Jersey American Water-Shrewsbury scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.3

2017→2019

New Jersey American Water-Shrewsbury injury rate improved

New Jersey American Water-Shrewsbury's TCR fell 6.3 from 8.7 in 2017 to 2.4 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.7 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.7 · 2018=2.3 · 2019=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · Shrewsbury, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.4 · 370% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #28/33
  • PHOTO Maine Water
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Maine Water (0.0 TCR gap)

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New Jersey American Water-Shrewsbury in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows New Jersey American Water-Shrewsbury averages 4.4 TCR (370% of the Water treatment and distribution BLS benchmark).

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

New Jersey American Water-Shrewsbury TCR series: 2017=8.7 · 2018=2.3 · 2019=2.4 · BLS 1.2

Where New Jersey American Water-Shrewsbury falls in its industry

727 Water treatment and distributi establishments

Safer than 48% 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 #28 safest of 33 Water treatment and distributi employers in New Jersey.

New Jersey American Water-Shrewsbury (76 employees, TCR 4.4) 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-Shrewsbury
New Jersey American Water-Shrewsbury (76 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

New Jersey American Water-Shrewsbury has more employees than the Water treatment and distribution median and a higher 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
2019 2.4 1.2 2 0 0
2018 2.3 2.3 2 0 0
2017 8.7 3.5 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · NJ · Shrewsbury

727 Water treatment and distribution employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 22 employers in Shrewsbury, 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 Maine Water 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0049-00000012 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tuolumne Utilities District 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Municipal District Services 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Union, NJ HVAC 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Gillespie Group, Inc. 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Custom Drying 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Digital Room LLC - Saddle Brook 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR Meridian Nursing and Rehab - Shrewsbury 239 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trader Joe's 0608 Shrewsbury 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0274 - SBP 96 FTE
CITY-NEAR SBP 93 FTE
NAT-TCR Meek's Joplin 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Marshalltown Southside 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Coordinated Wire Rope & Rigging, Inc 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR LQ0660 Santa Fe 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE A Rental Connection 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meridian Life Science - TN 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE CHC of Williamsburg 76 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, 2017. 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.