General medical and surgical hospitals · New Jersey

RWJ University Hospital New Brunswick

New Brunswick, NJ · ~5,384 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

RWJ University Hospital New Brunswick runs at 66% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade B.

RWJ University Hospital New Brunswick: 5.0 TCR = 66% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

RWJ University Hospital New Brunswick safety composite

RWJ University Hospital New Brunswick scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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).

D

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

RWJ University Hospital New Brunswick: 1.2 → 6.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.51× in 2024

RWJ University Hospital New Brunswick's TCR rose 5.0 from 1.2 in 2022 to 6.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · New Brunswick, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 5.0 · 66% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #23/101
  • PHOTO Palms West Hospital
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 878 inj
  • SIZE ~5,384 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Palms West Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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RWJ University Hospital New Brunswick in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows RWJ University Hospital New Brunswick averages 5.0 TCR (66% of the General medical and surgical hospitals BLS benchmark).

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

RWJ University Hospital New Brunswick TCR series: 2022=1.2 · 2023=7.4 · 2024=6.2 · BLS 7.5

Where RWJ University Hospital New Brunswick falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 101 General medical and surgical h employers in New Jersey.

RWJ University Hospital New Brunswick (5,384 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 02,0004,0006,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate RWJ University Hospital New Brunswick
RWJ University Hospital New Brunswick (5,384 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

RWJ University Hospital New Brunswick has more employees than the General medical and surgical hospitals median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2024 6.2 2.5 351 6 0
2023 7.4 3.0 236 15 0
2022 1.2 0.5 291 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · NJ · New Brunswick

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 50 employers in New Brunswick, 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 Palms West Hospital 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR University of Maryland Shore Medical Center at Easton 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0206-02621636 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR VCU Health System 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Artech, LLC 5,320 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stryker Orthopedics 5,226 FTE
STATE-SIZE Location 2000 4,981 FTE
STATE-SIZE Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa 4,827 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johnson and Johnson 2,828 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johnson and Johnson Corporate New Brunswick 2,159 FTE
CITY-NEAR E. R. Squibb & Sons LLC - New Brunswick 2,002 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Brunswick 1,555 FTE
NAT-TCR Daniel Electric 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kumi Manufacturing Alabama LLC 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon Retail LLC - MAF7 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 145 Jessup Md 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Inc. 5,384 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spartanburg Medical Center 5,386 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rogers Processing 5,377 FTE
NAT-SIZE Public Sector 5,366 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, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.