Supermarkets · New Jersey

Shop Rite of Watchung

Somerset, NJ · ~181 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shop Rite of Watchung runs at 205% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Supermarkets workplace, earning a grade F.

Shop Rite of Watchung: 7.0 TCR = 205% of Supermarkets BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shop Rite of Watchung safety composite

Shop Rite of Watchung scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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

−4.7

2020→2022

Shop Rite of Watchung injury rate improved

Shop Rite of Watchung's TCR fell 4.7 from 7.8 in 2020 to 3.2 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 9.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=7.8 · 2021=9.8 · 2022=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 205% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #469/746
  • PHOTO Price Rite Store 335…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~181 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Price Rite Store 335 Pawtucket (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 7.0 TCR (205% of the Supermarkets BLS benchmark).

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

Shop Rite of Watchung TCR series: 2020=7.8 · 2021=9.8 · 2022=3.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Shop Rite of Watchung falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets establishments

Safer than 26% 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 #469 safest of 746 Supermarkets employers in New Jersey.

Shop Rite of Watchung (181 employees, TCR 7.0) 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 (181 employees, TCR 7.0) 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
2022 3.2 2.1 3 0 0
2021 9.8 3.3 9 0 0
2020 7.8 5.9 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NJ · Somerset

30,654 Supermarkets 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 Price Rite Store 335 Pawtucket 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Superior Grocers 123 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carlyle 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR NAI-0032-0032-00606 FAC-00606-LIBERTYVILLE-IL 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE EGG HARBOR TTWP 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1942 LOWE S OF E. RUTHERFORD NJ 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE 10213 Middletown 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE SHOPRITE OF PERTH AMBOY #156 181 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 405088-Mc Minnville Po 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 058114-Van-Encino Br 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 314897-Las-Spring Valley Sta 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR INTEGRIS BMC Portland Avenue 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Frankford PA89 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fresca Mexican Foods LLC 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE 055664-Orange Po 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE 560250-Appleton Po 181 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. 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.