Spice grinding and blending · New Jersey

B&G Foods Inc. Ankeny Division

Parsippany, NJ · ~429 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

B&G Foods Inc. Ankeny Division runs at 20% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Spice grinding and blending workplace, earning a grade A.

B&G Foods Inc. Ankeny Division: 0.8 TCR = 20% of Spice grinding and blending BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

B&G Foods Inc. Ankeny Division safety composite

B&G Foods Inc. Ankeny Division scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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%).

Rising injury rate

B&G Foods Inc. Ankeny Division: 0.0 → 1.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 1.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.32× in 2020

B&G Foods Inc. Ankeny Division's TCR rose 1.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.1 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 1.4 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311942 · Parsippany, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 20% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #1/20
  • PHOTO NFI (formerly AUR)
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~429 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NFI (formerly AUR) (0.0 TCR gap)

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B&G Foods Inc. Ankeny Division in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows B&G Foods Inc. Ankeny Division averages 0.8 TCR (20% of the Spice grinding and blending BLS benchmark).

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

B&G Foods Inc. Ankeny Division TCR series: 2016=0 · 2018=1.4 · 2020=1.1 · BLS 4.1

Where B&G Foods Inc. Ankeny Division falls in its industry

200 Spice grinding and blending establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 20 Spice grinding and blending employers in New Jersey.

B&G Foods Inc. Ankeny Division (429 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate B&G Foods Inc. Ankeny Division
B&G Foods Inc. Ankeny Division (429 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5

B&G Foods Inc. Ankeny Division has more employees than the Spice grinding and blending median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2020 1.1 0.3 4 0 0
2018 1.4 1.1 5 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311942 · NJ · Parsippany

200 Spice grinding and blending employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 133 employers in Parsippany, 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 NFI (formerly AUR) 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mojave Foods 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kerry Inc. Lakeland Florida 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nestle LJ Minor 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Short Hills 429 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cherry Hill 059 429 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5752 428 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 5012 430 FTE
CITY-NEAR Skanska USA Building Inc. 3,124 FTE
CITY-NEAR PARSIPPANY (NJPAR) 1,851 FTE
CITY-NEAR NJPAR - PARSIPPANY 1,814 FTE
CITY-NEAR NJ 1,712 FTE
NAT-TCR Sendik's Food Markets Home Office 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Laminique, Inc 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR SAI Group 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Wynnewood Refinery 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Briggs & Stratton Statesboro Plant 429 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midwest Express Inc.-MAP 429 FTE
NAT-SIZE BSCHS Medical Group,PC 429 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boehringer Ingelheim - Athens 429 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: 2020, 2018, 2016. 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.