Towing service, inland waters (except on Great Lakes system) · New Jersey

Towing

Cranford, NJ · ~210 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Towing runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Towing service, inland waters (except on Great Lakes system) workplace, earning a grade B.

Towing: 2.4 TCR = 53% of Towing service, inland waters (except on Great Lakes system) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Towing safety composite

Towing scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Towing: 1.0 → 3.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 3.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.27× in 2018

Towing's TCR rose 2.2 from 1.0 in 2016 to 3.2 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 483211 · Cranford, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 53% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK P42
  • PHOTO Ingram barge Company
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~210 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ingram barge Company (0.1 TCR gap)

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Towing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Towing averages 2.4 TCR (53% of the Towing service, inland waters (except on Great Lakes system) BLS benchmark).

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

Towing TCR series: 2016=1 · 2017=2.9 · 2018=3.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Towing falls in its industry

48 Towing service, inland waters establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Towing (210 employees, TCR 2.4) among 27 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 2.2 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 28 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 01,0002,0003,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Towing
Towing (210 employees, TCR 2.4) among 27 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Towing has more employees than the Towing service, inland waters (except on median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.2. 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
2018 3.2 0.7 5 0 0
2017 2.9 1.9 6 0 0
2016 1.0 0.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

483211 · NJ · Cranford

48 Towing service, inland waters (except on Great Lakes system) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 29 employers in Cranford, 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 Ingram barge Company 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ACBL - Western Coal Terminal 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Intracoastal Marine 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harbor Vessel Operations 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE THOMAS COMPANY INC 210 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hutchinson Industries 210 FTE
STATE-SIZE Inductotherm Corp. 210 FTE
STATE-SIZE J. Ambrogi Foods 210 FTE
CITY-NEAR Weeks Marine 1,493 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dredging 1,060 FTE
CITY-NEAR New York Metro 1,051 FTE
CITY-NEAR Weeks Marine - Dredging 1,014 FTE
NAT-TCR Main Line Affiliates 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Rockwell Automation- Memphis TN (MTN) 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR CCNA - Dunedin Juice Plant 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Duke Energy Center Management Office 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dave O'Mara Contractor, INC. 210 FTE
NAT-SIZE JESCO Maintenance Corp. 210 FTE
NAT-SIZE I-59/20 210 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ron Carter Autoworld BDA Alvin Autoland 210 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: 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.