Materials recovery facilities (MRF) · New Jersey

Sims Municipal Recycling (SMR) - Jersey City

Jersey City, NJ · ~114 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sims Municipal Recycling (SMR) - Jersey City runs at 46% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Materials recovery facilities (MRF) workplace, earning a grade A.

Sims Municipal Recycling (SMR) - Jersey City: 1.2 TCR = 46% of Materials recovery facilities (MRF) BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sims Municipal Recycling (SMR) - Jersey City safety composite

Sims Municipal Recycling (SMR) - Jersey City scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% 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

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.8

2023→2024

Sims Municipal Recycling (SMR) - Jersey City injury rate improved

Sims Municipal Recycling (SMR) - Jersey City's TCR fell 0.8 from 1.6 in 2023 to 0.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=1.6 · 2024=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562920 · Jersey City, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 46% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/11
  • PHOTO Newalta Texas Branch…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~114 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Newalta Texas Branch Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sims Municipal Recycling (SMR) - Jersey City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sims Municipal Recycling (SMR) - Jersey City averages 1.2 TCR (46% of the Materials recovery facilities (MRF) BLS benchmark).

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

Sims Municipal Recycling (SMR) - Jersey City TCR series: 2023=1.6 · 2024=0.8 · BLS 2.6

Where Sims Municipal Recycling (SMR) - Jersey City falls in its industry

422 Materials recovery facilities establishments

Safer than 92% 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 #1 safest of 11 Materials recovery facilities employers in New Jersey.

Sims Municipal Recycling (SMR) - Jersey City (114 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sims Municipal Recycling (SMR) - Jersey City
Sims Municipal Recycling (SMR) - Jersey City (114 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Sims Municipal Recycling (SMR) - Jersey City has more employees than the Materials recovery facilities (MRF) median and a lower 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
2024 0.8 0.0 1 0 0
2023 1.6 1.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562920 · NJ · Jersey City

422 Materials recovery facilities (MRF) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 167 employers in Jersey City, 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 Newalta Texas Branch Office 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR S09088 - Monroe County MRF 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Diversified Recycling 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4300 Windfern Drive Suite 400 Houston TX 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE 25 Christopher Columbus Drive 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE 7217_16535 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE IMS Pet Industries 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE Takasago 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kuehne + Nagel Inc CL 3,394 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jersey City Medical Center 2,710 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kuehne + Nagel Inc SAL 2,649 FTE
CITY-NEAR 333869-NEW JERSEY NDC 2,118 FTE
NAT-TCR Brooklyn Resource Recovery, Inc. 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale McPherson 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Dallas Auxillary Warehouse 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Worthington Steel Porter 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE HB Trenchless 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Double D Delivers LLC 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fres-co System USA, Inc 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE T. E. Roberts, Inc. 114 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.