Supermarkets · New Jersey

Shop Rite of Watchung

Watchung, NJ · ~150 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shop Rite of Watchung runs at 158% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Supermarkets workplace, earning a grade D.

Shop Rite of Watchung: 5.4 TCR = 158% of Supermarkets BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shop Rite of Watchung safety composite

Shop Rite of Watchung scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 41%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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

−6.3

2023→2024

Shop Rite of Watchung injury rate improved

Shop Rite of Watchung's TCR fell 6.3 from 8.5 in 2023 to 2.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=8.5 · 2024=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Watchung, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 158% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #333/746
  • PHOTO 6400-SWY 0017 1639
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~150 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 6400-SWY 0017 1639 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shop Rite of Watchung in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shop Rite of Watchung averages 5.4 TCR (158% of the Supermarkets BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Shop Rite of Watchung TCR series: 2023=8.5 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Shop Rite of Watchung falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #333 safest of 746 Supermarkets employers in New Jersey.

Shop Rite of Watchung (150 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Shop Rite of Watchung
Shop Rite of Watchung (150 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Shop Rite of Watchung has more employees than the Supermarkets median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 2.2 2.2 2 0 0
2023 8.5 7.5 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NJ · Watchung

30,654 Supermarkets employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 21 employers in Watchung, 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 6400-SWY 0017 1639 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 178 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amazon Retail LLC - MAB4 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 20500002-512 STORE 512 - WINNETKA 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Trader Joe's 0601 Westfield 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE Complete Care Linwood 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE ShopRite of Knorr Street 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE CAREONE AT SOMMERSET VALLEY 150 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5111 259 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1155 - Watchung 236 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0906 WATCHUNG 135 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2532-25320073 134 FTE
NAT-TCR The Enclave 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Pacific Cheese - Amarillo, TX 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Woodstock Soapstone Company Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 108RIV 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tweezerman International, LLC 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ear, Nose and Throat Associates 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kokomo Family YMCA 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nielson Construction 150 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.