Books merchant wholesalers · New Jersey

Simon & Schuster

Riverside, NJ · ~453 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Simon & Schuster runs at 227% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Books merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Simon & Schuster: 5.0 TCR = 227% of Books merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Simon & Schuster safety composite

Simon & Schuster scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

Simon & Schuster: 2.5 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.28× in 2023

Simon & Schuster's TCR rose 5.0 from 2.5 in 2020 to 7.5 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424920 · Riverside, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 5.0 · 227% of ind

  • DART 6.4 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Discount Comic Book …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~453 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Discount Comic Book Service, Inc (0.3 TCR gap)

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Simon & Schuster in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Simon & Schuster averages 5.0 TCR (227% of the Books merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Simon & Schuster TCR series: 2020=2.5 · 2023=7.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Simon & Schuster falls in its industry

57 Books merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Books merchant wholesalers employers in New Jersey.

Simon & Schuster (453 employees, TCR 5.0) among 26 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 191 employees and a TCR of 3.8 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 27 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster (453 employees, TCR 5.0) among 26 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 191 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Simon & Schuster has more employees than the Books merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2023 7.5 6.4 26 1 0
2020 2.5 1.6 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424920 · NJ · Riverside

57 Books merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 8 employers in Riverside, 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 Discount Comic Book Service, Inc 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR ReaderLink Southeastern Distribution Center 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Los Angeles Depot 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Girl Deforest 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cranbury 1 454 FTE
STATE-SIZE Novartis Pharmaceuticals 454 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wegmans Woodbridge 032 452 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA - Iselin, S Wood 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6350-RIVERSIDE DISTRIBUTION CENTER 399 FTE
CITY-NEAR 34-321893026-1 383 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lourdes Central Business Office 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR 337275-RIVERSIDE PO 44 FTE
NAT-TCR Branford School Dist 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Plainfield Public Sch* 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 614 - Blytheville 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR MCRT Tempe 2 Tenant LLC 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Assessor/Recorder/Cty Clk & Treasurer/Tax Collector 453 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dc 0114 453 FTE
NAT-SIZE Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC- GA 453 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lahey Med Ctr - Gordon Building 453 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: 2023, 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.