Retail Hardware Stores · New Jersey

Newton, Nj #03001

Newton, NJ · ~16 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Newton, Nj #03001 runs at 479% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Retail Hardware Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Newton, Nj #03001: 16.3 TCR = 479% of Retail Hardware Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Newton, Nj #03001 safety composite

Newton, Nj #03001 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

F

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 32.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Newton, Nj #03001: 9.8 → 42.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 42.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.97× in 2023

Newton, Nj #03001's TCR rose 33.1 from 9.8 in 2019 to 42.9 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Newton, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.3 · 479% of ind

  • DART 32.2 DART
  • RANK #18/18
  • PHOTO DIY Home Center Simi…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~16 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DIY Home Center Simi Valley (0.1 TCR gap)

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Newton, Nj #03001 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Newton, Nj #03001 averages 16.3 TCR (479% of the Retail Hardware Stores BLS benchmark).

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

Newton, Nj #03001 TCR series: 2019=9.8 · 2020=9.3 · 2021=9.5 · 2022=10.1 · 2023=42.9 · BLS 3.4

Where Newton, Nj #03001 falls in its industry

1,493 Retail Hardware Stores establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 18 Retail Hardware Stores employers in New Jersey.

Newton, Nj #03001 (16 employees, TCR 16.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Newton, Nj #03001
Newton, Nj #03001 (16 employees, TCR 16.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Newton, Nj #03001 has fewer employees than the Retail Hardware Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. 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 42.9 32.2 4 0 0
2022 10.1 0.0 1 0 0
2021 9.5 9.5 1 0 0
2020 9.3 9.3 1 0 0
2019 9.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · NJ · Newton

1,493 Retail Hardware Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 31 employers in Newton, NJ · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR DIY Home Center Simi Valley 16.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR NORWICH, CT #03182 16.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR DIY Home Center Lake Tahoe 16.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SACRAMENTO FRUITRIDGE, CA #00021 16.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE PHRG NJ- Princeton 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tower Pros LLC - Carlstadt 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE Limbach - NJ 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE HPI-NJ 16 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newton Medical Center 1,212 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thorlabs Inc. NJ 897 FTE
CITY-NEAR ShopRite of Newton 305 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newton Shoprite 273 FTE
NAT-TCR Vet Lab (Elkmont) 16.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Advent Industries, LLC 16.3 TCR
NAT-TCR CLHP Operations LLC 16.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Bay Fabrication Inc. 16.3 TCR

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. 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.