Prosthetic appliances and supplies manufacturing · New Jersey

Zimmer Biomet

Fairlawn, NJ · ~139 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Zimmer Biomet runs at 115% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Prosthetic appliances and supplies manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Zimmer Biomet: 3.8 TCR = 115% of Prosthetic appliances and supplies manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Zimmer Biomet safety composite

Zimmer Biomet scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

Zimmer Biomet: 3.3 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.85× in 2024

Zimmer Biomet's TCR rose 1.0 from 3.3 in 2023 to 4.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339113 · Fairlawn, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 115% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #18/27
  • PHOTO Fernbrook Lane Facil…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~139 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fernbrook Lane Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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Zimmer Biomet in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Zimmer Biomet averages 3.8 TCR (115% 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

Zimmer Biomet TCR series: 2023=3.3 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Zimmer Biomet falls in its industry

555 Prosthetic appliances and supp establishments

Safer than 26% 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 #18 safest of 27 Prosthetic appliances and supp employers in New Jersey.

Zimmer Biomet (139 employees, TCR 3.8) 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 Zimmer Biomet
Zimmer Biomet (139 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Zimmer Biomet has more employees than the Prosthetic appliances and supplies manuf median and a higher 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 4.3 3.2 4 0 0
2023 3.3 1.6 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339113 · NJ · Fairlawn

555 Prosthetic appliances and supplies manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 10 employers in Fairlawn, 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 Fernbrook Lane Facility 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ELKINS PLANT 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tecomet 115 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CP Medical Inc. 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hatzel & Buehler, Inc. NJ 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tore Electric Co. 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE B&H Equipment 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE Paulsboro Lubricants Plant 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR ShopRite of Fair Lawn 220 FTE
CITY-NEAR ShopRite of Maple & Hemlock 188 FTE
CITY-NEAR STA - Paterson/Fairlawn 163 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maple glen Center 143 FTE
NAT-TCR Trend Technologies, LLC 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant 257 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Universal Steel Inc 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunny Grove Landscaping & Nursery Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hawkins County Memorial Hospital 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Huntington Living Center 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Grants 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Basic Grain Products Inc. 139 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.