TCR, interpreted
Far above average
5.5 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
New Jersey workplace safety
How 11,201 OSHA-reporting employers across New Jersey compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 9,743 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
- 11,201
- Employers
- 5.5
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 224,326
- Injuries (all)
- 149
- Fatalities (all)
New Jersey vs all states by OSHA-reporting employer count
Where this state's ITA establishment inventory sits among every tracked state and territory (coverage signal, not a safety ranking)
11,201 15th of 54 higher than 39 of 54 states
States and territories, banded by OSHA ITA reporting employer count
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source official public datasets · 2026
The state picture
New Jersey's 9,743 rated reporting employers average 5.5 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 2.0 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 5.5
- avg TCR · rated subset
- 9,743
- rated employers
- 11,201
- all reporting employers
- 224,326
- recordable injuries (all)
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 11,201 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
A · 15% B · 13% C · 28% D · 21% F · 24%
24% of New Jersey's reporting establishments earn an F and 15% an A, each measured against its own industry benchmark, not the state line. These grades are a transparent derived index, not an official OSHA rating; see the Methodology for the exact formula.
Where New Jersey ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCRNew Jersey's average TCR of 5.5 is lower than 34% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.
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How New Jersey Workplaces Compare
New Jersey hosts 11,201 employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. These are not small shops: federal rules require ITA submission from workplaces with 250+ employees in any industry, plus workplaces with 20+ employees in the roughly 60 NAICS codes classified as high-hazard (construction, manufacturing, healthcare, warehousing, agriculture, and others). Across this New Jersey cohort, workers have logged 224,326 recordable injuries. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.5 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 9,743 establishments with a credible rate (zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings stay in the inventory counts above but are excluded from the average, see methodology).
The state has recorded 149 workplace fatalities in the reporting window, which is tracked separately from non-fatal injury counts because fatal events have their own investigation trail under 29 CFR 1904.39. Reading state-level TCR requires context: the headline figure is driven by a state's industry mix. A state with a heavy construction, logging, or meatpacking footprint will mechanically post higher TCR than a state dominated by finance or professional services, even when individual employers are equally well-managed. That is why the employer table below sorts each establishment by its own TCR and letter grade, against the BLS benchmark for its specific industry, not against the state average.
For jobseekers, relocators, investors, and local safety professionals, state-level pages function as an entry point: use the grade-sorted list to spot the safest and highest-risk employers in New Jersey, then click through to an individual establishment for its year-by-year injury, illness, DART, and fatality trajectory. Compare multiple years before drawing conclusions, a single outlier year can reflect a specific event, whereas a sustained pattern across reporting cycles is a more reliable risk signal. All data comes directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries. State OSHA plans in 22 states operate their own enforcement programs in parallel, but the injury data above is harmonized through the federal ITA system.
Employers in New Jersey, by injury rate
Page 160 of 224| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E8 - Freehold | Freehold | Furniture stores | B | 1.8 |
| Prismatic Development Corporation | Fairfield | Commercial building construc | B | 1.7 |
| Safest Way Labor Force, LLC | Vineland | Nationality specialty foods | B | 1.7 |
| Silver Line Building Products | North Brunswick Township | Windows and window frames, v | B | 1.7 |
| Sika Corporation - Operations | Lyndhurst | Adhesives (except asphalt, d | B | 1.7 |
| Acclaim Rehabilitation & Care Center | Jersey City | Homes for the elderly with n | A | 1.7 |
| Jc Macelroy Co. Inc. | Piscataway | Ornamental metalwork manufac | B | 1.7 |
| McWane Ductile-NJ | Phillipsburg | Ductile iron foundries | B | 1.7 |
| 000019000 Georgian Court University | Lakewood | Food Services | B | 1.7 |
| Prospect Transportation of Florida, Inc. | Carlstadt | Tanker trucking (e.g., chemi | A | 1.7 |
| Fire Rd | Egg Harbor | Utility line (i.e., sewer, w | B | 1.7 |
| Halo Pharmaceutical, Inc. d/b/a Cambrex Whippany | Whippany | Pharmaceutical preparations | B | 1.7 |
| Corporate Office | Mercerville | Corporate | F | 1.7 |
| Arcade Beauty - South Plainfield | South Plainfield | Toilet preparations (e.g., c | B | 1.7 |
| SupplyOne New York | Paterson | Boxes, corrugated and solid | B | 1.7 |
| 1525 Deptford Twp SD | Deptford | Food Service Contractor | B | 1.7 |
| Landscape Maintenance Services, Inc. | Hillsborough | Landscape care and maintenan | A | 1.7 |
| Shearon Environmental Design of NJ Inc. | Hopewell | Plant maintenance services | A | 1.7 |
| Lunch Break, Inc. | Red Bank | Food banks | A | 1.7 |
| WST Westampton | Westampton | Intercity And Rural Bus Tran | A | 1.7 |
| Sunshine Home Health Services | Wyckoff | Home health agencies | A | 1.7 |
| Yarde Metals, New Jersey | East Hanover | Pipe, metal, merchant wholes | B | 1.7 |
| Harmon Westfield | Westfield | beauty supply store | B | 1.7 |
| Sodexo at Colgate Palmolive-Nt Custodial | Piscataway | Building Cleaning/Maintenanc | A | 1.7 |
| Benjamin Moore & Company | Montvale | Architectural coatings (i.e. | B | 1.7 |
| Lowell International | Edison | General freight trucking, lo | A | 1.7 |
| Guest Supply - 309 Kennedy Drive (Sayreville, NJ) | Sayreville | Druggists' sundries merchant | B | 1.7 |
| Conair East Windsor New Jersey | East Windsor | Consumer electronics merchan | B | 1.7 |
| Royal Wine Corp. | Bayonne | Alcoholic beverages, brandy, | B | 1.7 |
| AbateTech, Inc. | Lumberton | Asbestos abatement services | B | 1.7 |
| Chs (Njpic2) | Picatinny Arsenal | General medical and surgical | A | 1.7 |
| Kariout LLC - Rockaway | Rockaway | Bottles, plastics, manufactu | B | 1.7 |
| Pillari Bros. Construction Corp. | Farmingdale | Aqueduct construction | B | 1.7 |
| Wawa Site - 8331 | Princeton | Convenience Store | B | 1.7 |
| Aetna Roofing Corp | Trenton | Roofing contractors | B | 1.7 |
| Blenheim Construction, Inc. | Sicklerville | Excavating, earthmoving, or | B | 1.7 |
| 364 - Cedar Knolls Branch | Cedar Knolls | - | B | 1.7 |
| Paramus Fairfield Inn & Suites | Paramus | Hotels (except casino hotels | B | 1.7 |
| 335099-Customer Care Center - Nj | Edison | Mail and Parcel Delivery | A | 1.7 |
| Tore Electric Co. | Victory Gardens, Dover | Electrical contractors | B | 1.7 |
| Wolfington Body Company Inc.- Hainesport | Hainesport | School bus merchant wholesal | B | 1.7 |
| Pedricktown | Pedricktown | Cold storage warehousing | A | 1.7 |
| Sodexo at Sanofi Hq Cafeteria | Bridgewater | Food Service Contractors | B | 1.7 |
| Second Home Holdings, LLC | Hackensack | Day care centers, adult | A | 1.7 |
| Sixarp LLC, dba Praxis Packaging Solutions, dba Unette Corporation | Randolph | Packaging services (except p | B | 1.7 |
| Solar Turbines Incorporated New York District Office | Parsippany | Gas turbine generator set un | B | 1.7 |
| Railroad Construction Co., Inc. - Amtrak, NY | Paterson | Railroad construction | B | 1.7 |
| Watt Hotel LLC | Rahway | Resort hotels without casino | B | 1.7 |
| Herc Rentals 9167 | Newark | Construction machinery and e | D | 1.7 |
| Wang Global-NY | Moonachie | General-line groceries merch | B | 1.7 |
Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for New Jersey: nearest states and territories by rated-subset average Total Case Rate and by OSHA-reporting employer inventory. These are cross-state neighborhoods, not the employer list above.
Similar average TCR
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (5.5 here).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (11,201 here).
Look up a New Jersey employer → · Compare all states → · How TCR is measured →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.