Skilled nursing facilities · New Jersey

Southern Ocean Center

Manahawkin, NJ · ~112 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.1
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern Ocean Center runs at 262% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Skilled nursing facilities workplace, earning a grade F.

Southern Ocean Center: 17.1 TCR = 262% of Skilled nursing facilities BLS 6.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Ocean Center safety composite

Southern Ocean Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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).

F

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 30.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Southern Ocean Center: 8.8 → 33.2 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 33.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.78× in 2020

Southern Ocean Center's TCR rose 24.4 from 8.8 in 2016 to 33.2 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Manahawkin, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 17.1 · 262% of ind

  • DART 30.4 DART
  • RANK #327/370
  • PHOTO FORT VALLEY HEALTH A…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 67 inj
  • SIZE ~112 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FORT VALLEY HEALTH AND REHAB (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern Ocean Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern Ocean Center averages 17.1 TCR (262% of the Skilled nursing facilities BLS benchmark).

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

Southern Ocean Center TCR series: 2016=8.8 · 2017=10.6 · 2018=13.5 · 2019=19.2 · 2020=33.2 · BLS 6.5

Where Southern Ocean Center falls in its industry

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #327 safest of 370 Skilled nursing facilities employers in New Jersey.

Southern Ocean Center (112 employees, TCR 17.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Southern Ocean Center
Southern Ocean Center (112 employees, TCR 17.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Southern Ocean Center has more employees than the Skilled nursing facilities median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.6. 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
2020 33.2 30.4 10 25 0
2019 19.2 15.5 21 0 0
2018 13.5 12.5 13 0 0
2017 10.6 9.7 11 0 0
2016 8.8 7.4 12 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · NJ · Manahawkin

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 34 employers in Manahawkin, 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 FORT VALLEY HEALTH AND REHAB 17.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Colonial Care Center 17.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 9288-289 17.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manoogian Manor 17.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE IDL Contracting Services LLC 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lor-Mar Mechanical 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buona Vita Inc 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Colonna Brothers, Inc. 1 112 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southern Ocean Medical Center 1,036 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shoprite of Manahawkin 480 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1921 192 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2392 - Stafford Township 191 FTE
NAT-TCR Dakota Granite 17.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Mainstream Services, Inc. 17.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Far 86 17.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Distribution Center 17.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Syracuse Store - 01 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pruitt Tool & Supply Co - Fort Smith, AR 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seaside Hospital LLC 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE ATK Audiotek 112 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.