Primers, paint, manufacturing · New Jersey

Rust-Oleum Corporation Somerset NJ

Somerset, NJ · ~95 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rust-Oleum Corporation Somerset NJ runs at 148% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Primers, paint, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Rust-Oleum Corporation Somerset NJ: 4.9 TCR = 148% of Primers, paint, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rust-Oleum Corporation Somerset NJ safety composite

Rust-Oleum Corporation Somerset NJ scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

Rust-Oleum Corporation Somerset NJ: 3.9 → 5.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.96× in 2024

Rust-Oleum Corporation Somerset NJ's TCR rose 2.0 from 3.9 in 2023 to 5.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325510 · Somerset, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 148% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #13/17
  • PHOTO Ennis-Flint Hannibal…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~95 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ennis-Flint Hannibal, MO (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rust-Oleum Corporation Somerset NJ in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rust-Oleum Corporation Somerset NJ averages 4.9 TCR (148% of the Primers, paint, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Rust-Oleum Corporation Somerset NJ TCR series: 2023=3.9 · 2024=5.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Rust-Oleum Corporation Somerset NJ falls in its industry

530 Primers, paint, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 17 Primers, paint, manufacturing employers in New Jersey.

Rust-Oleum Corporation Somerset NJ (95 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Rust-Oleum Corporation Somerset NJ
Rust-Oleum Corporation Somerset NJ (95 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Rust-Oleum Corporation Somerset NJ has more employees than the Primers, paint, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 5.9 4.7 5 0 0
2023 3.9 2.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325510 · NJ · Somerset

530 Primers, paint, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 134 employers in Somerset, 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 Ennis-Flint Hannibal, MO 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR APT - Advanced Polymer Technology Corporation 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR True Value Manufacturing - Cary 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Euclid Kirkland 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lendlease Princeton 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shamrock Construction Group Inc. 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corbin Electrical Services, Inc. 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE V.A.L. Floors, Inc. 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR Catalent 4,825 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - TEB9 2,642 FTE
CITY-NEAR PIM Brands 682 FTE
CITY-NEAR Somerset 642 FTE
NAT-TCR Vinwood Cellars 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Nmsoc - Socorro Center 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR North Carolina 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Nyyon - Yonkers 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bella Terra LaGrange 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Platte Care Center 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Utah Tile and Roofing Inc. 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE EMS - Sanctuary West St. Paul 95 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. 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.