Building cleaning services, janitorial · New Jersey

Newark Liberty International Airport

Newark, NJ · ~219 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Newark Liberty International Airport runs at 256% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Building cleaning services, janitorial workplace, earning a grade F.

Newark Liberty International Airport: 11.5 TCR = 256% of Building cleaning services, janitorial BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Newark Liberty International Airport safety composite

Newark Liberty International Airport scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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).

F

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Newark Liberty International Airport: 6.5 → 8.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 14.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.39× in 2023

Newark Liberty International Airport's TCR rose 1.6 from 6.5 in 2018 to 8.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 14.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561720 · Newark, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.5 · 256% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #96/101
  • PHOTO PSSI / SIMMONS FOODS…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 123 inj
  • SIZE ~219 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PSSI / SIMMONS FOODS INC. - VAN BUREN COOK (0.0 TCR gap)

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Newark Liberty International Airport in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Newark Liberty International Airport averages 11.5 TCR (256% of the Building cleaning services, janitorial BLS benchmark).

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

Newark Liberty International Airport TCR series: 2018=6.5 · 2019=13.8 · 2020=11.8 · 2021=14.4 · 2022=14.3 · 2023=8.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Newark Liberty International Airport falls in its industry

4,064 Building cleaning services, ja establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #96 safest of 101 Building cleaning services, ja employers in New Jersey.

Newark Liberty International Airport (219 employees, TCR 11.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 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 Newark Liberty International Airport
Newark Liberty International Airport (219 employees, TCR 11.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Newark Liberty International Airport has more employees than the Building cleaning services, janitorial median and a higher 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
2023 8.1 4.5 9 0 0
2022 14.3 12.4 28 2 0
2021 14.4 13.9 27 3 0
2020 11.8 8.6 21 5 0
2019 13.8 6.2 26 5 0
2018 6.5 3.5 12 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561720 · NJ · Newark

4,064 Building cleaning services, janitorial employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 356 employers in Newark, 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 PSSI / SIMMONS FOODS INC. - VAN BUREN COOK 11.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT HOLMES REGIONAL MED CTR EVS 11.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Luke 11.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR National Management Resources Wilson College 11.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Givaudan Flavors Corp. -South Hackensack 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE NWL Inc. 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE ShopRite of Columbia Park 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE 10587 Spring Lake Wall 219 FTE
CITY-NEAR EWR EWR 13,545 FTE
CITY-NEAR EWR - Airport United Airlines Offices 13,015 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-EWR 11,764 FTE
CITY-NEAR EWRPW9829 EWR - NON AA PAX SER 4,772 FTE
NAT-TCR Royal Park 11.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Tacoma Roofing & Waterproofing 11.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Erving Industries, Inc. 11.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 1001 - Park City 11.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE #1 Admin, O/S Crews, ASC-DTAC, Trans 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Manhattan at Times Square Hotel 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit 447 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woodman's Food Market Madison East 16 219 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.