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UTY - New Jersey - Hackensack,NJ

Hackensack, NJ · ~276 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

UTY - New Jersey - Hackensack,NJ runs at 197% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Water workplace, earning a grade D.

UTY - New Jersey - Hackensack,NJ: 2.4 TCR = 197% of Water BLS 1.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

UTY - New Jersey - Hackensack,NJ safety composite

UTY - New Jersey - Hackensack,NJ scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 49%), 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).

C

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.5

2023→2024

UTY - New Jersey - Hackensack,NJ injury rate improved

UTY - New Jersey - Hackensack,NJ's TCR fell 0.5 from 2.6 in 2023 to 2.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.6 · 2024=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · Hackensack, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 2.4 · 197% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #16/33
  • PHOTO Water/Wastewater Dep…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~276 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Water/Wastewater Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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UTY - New Jersey - Hackensack,NJ in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows UTY - New Jersey - Hackensack,NJ averages 2.4 TCR (197% of the Water BLS benchmark).

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

UTY - New Jersey - Hackensack,NJ TCR series: 2023=2.6 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 1.2

Where UTY - New Jersey - Hackensack,NJ falls in its industry

727 Water establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 33 Water employers in New Jersey.

UTY - New Jersey - Hackensack,NJ (276 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate UTY - New Jersey - Hackensack,NJ
UTY - New Jersey - Hackensack,NJ (276 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

UTY - New Jersey - Hackensack,NJ has more employees than the Water median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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
2024 2.1 2.1 6 0 0
2023 2.6 2.2 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · NJ · Hackensack

727 Water employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 63 employers in Hackensack, 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 Water/Wastewater Department 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ILAWC Champaign 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Piedmont Triad Regional Water Authority 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aqua Virginia, Inc. - Rockville 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE J+J Snack Foods Bellmawr 276 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DNK5 276 FTE
STATE-SIZE NJ - TJX 276 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Jersey Pool Management, LLC - New Jersey 276 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hackensack University Medical 7,233 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hackensack University Medical Center 7,005 FTE
CITY-NEAR J. Fletcher Creamer & Son Inc. 777 FTE
CITY-NEAR AHSHACK 532 FTE
NAT-TCR Evansville Purina Feed Mill 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Adamson Plumbing Contractors, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR SM Gallivan LLC 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Lindell Fuels Inc 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Enfield Farms Inc 276 FTE
NAT-SIZE Museum of Science 276 FTE
NAT-SIZE Buck Company, LLC 276 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hydro Sidney 276 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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