Pens manufacturing · New Jersey

Pen Company of America

Garwood, NJ · ~54 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pen Company of America runs at 199% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pens manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Pen Company of America: 6.6 TCR = 199% of Pens manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pen Company of America safety composite

Pen Company of America scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.3

2017→2022

Pen Company of America injury rate improved

Pen Company of America's TCR fell 1.3 from 5.5 in 2017 to 4.2 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 12.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.5 · 2018=6.0 · 2019=12.0 · 2020=5.4 · 2021=6.3 · 2022=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339940 · Garwood, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 199% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK P7
  • PHOTO DNP Imagingcomm Amer…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DNP Imagingcomm America (0.2 TCR gap)

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Pen Company of America in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pen Company of America averages 6.6 TCR (199% of the Pens manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Pen Company of America TCR series: 2017=5.5 · 2018=6 · 2019=12 · 2020=5.4 · 2021=6.3 · 2022=4.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Pen Company of America falls in its industry

56 Pens manufacturing establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Pen Company of America (54 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Pen Company of America
Pen Company of America (54 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Pen Company of America has fewer employees than the Pens manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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
2022 4.2 4.2 2 0 0
2021 6.3 2.1 3 0 0
2020 5.4 5.4 2 1 0
2019 12.0 10.3 7 0 0
2018 6.0 4.5 4 0 0
2017 5.5 3.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339940 · NJ · Garwood

56 Pens manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 7 employers in Garwood, 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 DNP Imagingcomm America 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stampin' Up! Kanab 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Navitor Specialty Products - 0205 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Industries for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Inc. - Menomonee Falls 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE South Jersey Gas-Atlantic 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Jersey American Water - Howell Field Ops 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE 34-999340947-9 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE 600 Whitehead Road 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shop Rite of Garwood 324 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5472-NAI-0034-0034-03620 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR NAI-0034-0034-03620 FAC-03620-GARWOOD-NJ 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR Manufacturing 60 FTE
NAT-TCR 032 Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Azle 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 32920 Decker Prairie 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Cheyenne 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 4598-Rtc San Diego 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kitchen Cooked - Farmington 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5843 Baltimore MD 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE 8712 Jericho City Drive 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hunter Truck - Pocono 54 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.