Group homes, intellectual and developmental disability · New Jersey

The Arc of Essex County

Livingston, NJ · ~460 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

The Arc of Essex 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 of Essex County: 5.6 TCR = 148% of Group homes, intellectual and developmental disability BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Arc of Essex County safety composite

The Arc of Essex County scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 0%), 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

33/100

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 4.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 0% 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

−3.2

2016→2023

The Arc of Essex County injury rate improved

The Arc of Essex County's TCR fell 3.2 from 7.2 in 2016 to 4.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.2 · 2023=4.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623210 · Livingston, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 148% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #13/31
  • PHOTO The Arc Middlesex Co…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 43 inj
  • SIZE ~460 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Arc Middlesex County (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Arc of Essex County in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Arc of Essex 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 of Essex County TCR series: 2016=7.2 · 2023=4.1 · BLS 3.8

Where The Arc of Essex 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 #13 safest of 31 Group homes, intellectual and employers in New Jersey.

The Arc of Essex County (460 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 of Essex County
The Arc of Essex County (460 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 of Essex 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
2023 4.1 4.1 16 0 0
2016 7.2 6.7 27 1 1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623210 · NJ · Livingston

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 · 58 employers in Livingston, 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 Middlesex 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 Wegmans Princeton 093 460 FTE
STATE-SIZE Flying Food Group EWR 460 FTE
STATE-SIZE Premio Foods Inc - Hawthorne 459 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aspire Bakeries- Swedesboro NJ 461 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center 4,049 FTE
CITY-NEAR Livingston Atlantic Ambulance 830 FTE
CITY-NEAR Livingston -Atlantic Ambulance 825 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atlantic Ambulance 716 FTE
NAT-TCR Wallingford (Dexmet) 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Greenfield Care Center of Fairfield 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Hershey Entertainment Complex 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR San Antonio Military Medical Center 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Richwood #2 460 FTE
NAT-SIZE Outdoor Supply Hardware 460 FTE
NAT-SIZE LSI - Delano 460 FTE
NAT-SIZE Filtration : Jeffersonville 460 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, 2016. 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.