Group homes, intellectual and developmental disability · New Jersey

The Arc of Union County

Springfield, NJ · ~505 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Arc of Union County runs at 188% 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 Union County: 7.2 TCR = 188% of Group homes, intellectual and developmental disability BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Arc of Union County safety composite

The Arc of Union County scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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 of Union County: 2.3 → 12.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 12.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.23× in 2024

The Arc of Union County's TCR rose 9.8 from 2.3 in 2023 to 12.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 7.2 · 188% of ind

  • DART 8.8 DART
  • RANK #18/31
  • PHOTO Cerebral Palsy of No…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 53 inj
  • SIZE ~505 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cerebral Palsy of North Jersey (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Arc of Union County in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Arc of Union County averages 7.2 TCR (188% 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 Union County TCR series: 2023=2.3 · 2024=12 · BLS 3.8

Where The Arc of Union County falls in its industry

2,261 Group homes, intellectual and establishments

Safer than 40% 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 #18 safest of 31 Group homes, intellectual and employers in New Jersey.

The Arc of Union County (505 employees, TCR 7.2) 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 Union County
The Arc of Union County (505 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.8

The Arc of Union County has more employees than the Group homes, intellectual and developmen median and a higher 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
2024 12.0 8.8 45 0 0
2023 2.3 1.1 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623210 · NJ · Springfield

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 · 34 employers in Springfield, 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 Cerebral Palsy of North Jersey 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Autism Learning Partners Broomfield 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leola 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Robinson House 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 5752 505 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wegmans Manalapan 095 506 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3159 504 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hanover 503 FTE
CITY-NEAR 70 Diamond Rd. Springfield, NJ 07081 478 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valcor Engineering 327 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baltusrol Golf Club 214 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shop Rite of Springfield 212 FTE
NAT-TCR Market Basket 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Hospice of the Golden Isles 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Food Stores 6314 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant 389 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE LEMOINE 505 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mid-South Transportation Management Inc 505 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ag World Inc 505 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heaven Hill Brands 505 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.

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