Group homes, intellectual and developmental disability · New Jersey

The Arc Middlesex County

North Brunswick, NJ · ~271 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Arc Middlesex County runs at 148% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Group homes, intellectual and developmental disability workplace, earning a grade D.

The Arc Middlesex County: 5.6 TCR = 148% of Group homes, intellectual and developmental disability BLS 3.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Arc Middlesex County safety composite

The Arc Middlesex County scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

The Arc Middlesex County: 4.2 → 6.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 6.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.68× in 2022

The Arc Middlesex County's TCR rose 2.4 from 4.2 in 2017 to 6.6 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623210 · North Brunswick, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 148% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #14/31
  • PHOTO The Arc of Essex Cou…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~271 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Arc of Essex County (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Arc Middlesex County in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Arc Middlesex County averages 5.6 TCR (148% of the Group homes, intellectual and developmental disability BLS benchmark).

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

The Arc Middlesex County TCR series: 2017=4.2 · 2021=6.1 · 2022=6.6 · BLS 3.8

Where The Arc Middlesex County falls in its industry

2,261 Group homes, intellectual and establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 31 Group homes, intellectual and employers in New Jersey.

The Arc Middlesex County (271 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.8 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate The Arc Middlesex County
The Arc Middlesex County (271 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.8

The Arc Middlesex County has more employees than the Group homes, intellectual and developmen median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.8. 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
2022 6.6 3.9 9 3 0
2021 6.1 3.1 10 4 0
2017 4.2 1.0 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623210 · NJ · North Brunswick

2,261 Group homes, intellectual and developmental disability employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 65 employers in North Brunswick, 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 The Arc of Essex County 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gunderson Place 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darien 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR LAFA CORE OFFICE 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Berrycran 271 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2636-NEW JERSEY.ISELIN 271 FTE
STATE-SIZE SHOPRITE OF GLASSBORO 271 FTE
STATE-SIZE #623 West Long Branch Shoprite 271 FTE
CITY-NEAR SilverLine - North Brunswick 1,676 FTE
CITY-NEAR Silver Line Building Products LLC 1,286 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2003 401 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2003 393 FTE
NAT-TCR Bed Bath and Beyond McAllen 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Hampton Products International Corp 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Solow Building Company - 420 E. 61st Street 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Premium Concrete Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1152 - Cedar Park Tx Whse 271 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0680 - Bunker Hill Tx Whse 271 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0373 - Independence Mo Whse 271 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1088 - Bolingbrook Il Whse 271 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, 2017. 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.