Fresh meats merchant wholesalers · New Jersey

Schuster Meat Corporation

Lodi, NJ · ~68 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Schuster Meat Corporation runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Fresh meats merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Schuster Meat Corporation: 1.2 TCR = 56% of Fresh meats merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Schuster Meat Corporation safety composite

Schuster Meat Corporation scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

Schuster Meat Corporation held a steady TCR band

Schuster Meat Corporation's TCR held near 0.2 from 1.4 in 2023 to 1.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=1.4 · 2024=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424470 · Lodi, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.2 · 56% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK P94
  • PHOTO Minore's Meats, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Minore's Meats, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Schuster Meat Corporation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Schuster Meat Corporation averages 1.2 TCR (56% of the Fresh meats merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Schuster Meat Corporation TCR series: 2023=1.4 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Schuster Meat Corporation falls in its industry

162 Fresh meats merchant wholesale establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Schuster Meat Corporation (68 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Schuster Meat Corporation
Schuster Meat Corporation (68 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Schuster Meat Corporation has more employees than the Fresh meats merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2023 1.4 1.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424470 · NJ · Lodi

162 Fresh meats merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 23 employers in Lodi, 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 Minore's Meats, Inc. 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schiess Distributors, Inc 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR J&D Refrigerated 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lombardi Brothers Meats 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Columbia Care New Jersey LLC.-Vineland 1 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lambertville 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mercer Group International of New Jersey, Inc. 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE River Terminal Development 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR Montana Construction Corp Inc 236 FTE
CITY-NEAR ShopRite of Lodi 216 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Foodware Group 203 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - DJR1 154 FTE
NAT-TCR Valco Valley Tool & Die 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Cairo Family Care Center 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Callan Family Care Center 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Columbia Memorial Bone & Joint 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Fresh Market 012 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Fresh Market 025 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Fresh Market 027 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Agricor Inc. 68 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.