Prosthetic appliances and supplies manufacturing · New Jersey

VLV Associates, Inc.

Whippany, NJ · ~38 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

VLV Associates, Inc. runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Prosthetic appliances and supplies manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

VLV Associates, Inc.: 1.1 TCR = 32% of Prosthetic appliances and supplies manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

VLV Associates, Inc. safety composite

VLV Associates, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

VLV Associates, Inc.: 0.0 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

VLV Associates, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.1 from 0.0 in 2023 to 2.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339113 · Whippany, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 32% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #7/27
  • PHOTO DeRoyal Technologies
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DeRoyal Technologies (0.0 TCR gap)

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VLV Associates, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows VLV Associates, Inc. averages 1.1 TCR (32% of the Prosthetic appliances and supplies manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

VLV Associates, Inc. TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where VLV Associates, Inc. falls in its industry

555 Prosthetic appliances and supp establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 27 Prosthetic appliances and supp employers in New Jersey.

VLV Associates, Inc. (38 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate VLV Associates, Inc.
VLV Associates, Inc. (38 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.1

VLV Associates, Inc. has fewer employees than the Prosthetic appliances and supplies manuf median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339113 · NJ · Whippany

555 Prosthetic appliances and supplies manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 28 employers in Whippany, 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 DeRoyal Technologies 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR DePuy Synthes Raynham 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Franklin SPE-HSEMS 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Johnson and Johnson MDD CSS 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE South Jersey Gas-Waterford 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE JSH & Sons, LLC 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE NJN 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Paulsboro Refining Company 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nutra-Med Packaging LLC - 118 Algonquin Parkway 750 FTE
CITY-NEAR Star-Lo Electric Inc. 328 FTE
CITY-NEAR HQ Whippany NJ 289 FTE
CITY-NEAR Halo Pharmaceutical, Inc. d/b/a Cambrex Whippany 247 FTE
NAT-TCR EPP Team LLC. 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Smiths Tubular Systems - Laconia, Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR PDM Santa Clara 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Tadano America Corporation 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Empire Roofing of Oklahoma 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE PLC Trenching Co., Inc. 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE UHM/CTAHR/PEPS 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scanivalve Corp 38 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.