Building Cleaning Maintenance · New Jersey

Sodexo at Merck Ry Lab Serv

Rahway, NJ · ~36 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sodexo at Merck Ry Lab Serv runs at 102% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Building Cleaning Maintenance workplace, earning a grade C.

Sodexo at Merck Ry Lab Serv: 4.6 TCR = 102% of Building Cleaning Maintenance BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sodexo at Merck Ry Lab Serv safety composite

Sodexo at Merck Ry Lab Serv scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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

Sodexo at Merck Ry Lab Serv: 2.8 → 6.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Sodexo at Merck Ry Lab Serv's TCR rose 3.5 from 2.8 in 2023 to 6.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561720 · Rahway, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.6 · 102% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #71/101
  • PHOTO Coastal Building Mai…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Coastal Building Maintenance (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sodexo at Merck Ry Lab Serv in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sodexo at Merck Ry Lab Serv averages 4.6 TCR (102% of the Building Cleaning Maintenance BLS benchmark).

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

Sodexo at Merck Ry Lab Serv TCR series: 2023=2.8 · 2024=6.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Sodexo at Merck Ry Lab Serv falls in its industry

4,064 Building Cleaning Maintenance establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #71 safest of 101 Building Cleaning Maintenance employers in New Jersey.

Sodexo at Merck Ry Lab Serv (36 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sodexo at Merck Ry Lab Serv
Sodexo at Merck Ry Lab Serv (36 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Sodexo at Merck Ry Lab Serv has fewer employees than the Building Cleaning Maintenance median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 6.3 0.0 0 1 0
2023 2.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561720 · NJ · Rahway

4,064 Building Cleaning Maintenance employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 42 employers in Rahway, 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 Coastal Building Maintenance 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stanislaus County Custodial 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR fort Gordon 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Palestine Regional Medical Center - EVS 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lakewood Township Municipal Utilities Authority 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Atlantic City Sewerage Company 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE B. Tait Builders, L.L.C. 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Phoenix Diversified Group, Inc. 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rahway, NJ Facility 4,475 FTE
CITY-NEAR RWJ University Hospital Rahway 865 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wytech Industries LLC 227 FTE
CITY-NEAR Guest Packaging (Rahway) 202 FTE
NAT-TCR 051 Decatur AL 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Carman Industries 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR USA Portland OR 9555 NE Airport Way 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR James E John Construction Co., Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Messco Building Supply, Inc. 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Signet Shipbuilding & Repair 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Matsuura Machinery USA Inc 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Village of Spring Grove 36 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.