Motor vehicle towing services · New Jersey

Nick's Towing Service

Rutherford, NJ · ~40 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Nick's Towing Service runs at 29% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Motor vehicle towing services workplace, earning a grade A.

Nick's Towing Service: 1.3 TCR = 29% of Motor vehicle towing services BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nick's Towing Service safety composite

Nick's Towing Service scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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%).

Nick's Towing Service held a steady TCR band

Nick's Towing Service's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.0 in 2021 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 2.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=2.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488410 · Rutherford, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 29% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK P90
  • PHOTO McGann and Chester LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: McGann and Chester LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nick's Towing Service in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nick's Towing Service averages 1.3 TCR (29% of the Motor vehicle towing services BLS benchmark).

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

Nick's Towing Service TCR series: 2021=2 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Nick's Towing Service falls in its industry

157 Motor vehicle towing services establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Nick's Towing Service (40 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Nick's Towing Service
Nick's Towing Service (40 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Nick's Towing Service has more employees than the Motor vehicle towing services median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.0 0.0 1 0 1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488410 · NJ · Rutherford

157 Motor vehicle towing services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 15 employers in Rutherford, 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 McGann and Chester LLC 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cupertino Towing 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR S & J Towing Service, Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mike's Wrecker Service, Inc. 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE MATHIS 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carneys Point Generating Plant 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE ACE- West Creek Operations 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE NJC 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - DJR3 275 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bergen Logistics--NJ299 Rutherford, NJ 266 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bergen Logistics--299 Rutherford, NJ 239 FTE
CITY-NEAR Airtech 129 FTE
NAT-TCR Ellisville MO 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Kirkwood stair Millwork 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Articularis Healthcare Group 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 731 - St Louis 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Key Home Health Care 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kimoto Tech, Inc 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reliable Ducts Heating and Cooling 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Katz Americas South 40 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, 2021. 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.