Frozen waffles manufacturing · New Jersey

Blue Anchor Manufacturing Facility - KNA

Blue Anchor, NJ · ~145 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blue Anchor Manufacturing Facility - KNA runs at 107% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Frozen waffles manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Blue Anchor Manufacturing Facility - KNA: 3.5 TCR = 107% of Frozen waffles manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blue Anchor Manufacturing Facility - KNA safety composite

Blue Anchor Manufacturing Facility - KNA scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

Blue Anchor Manufacturing Facility - KNA: 2.0 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.01× in 2024

Blue Anchor Manufacturing Facility - KNA's TCR rose 2.9 from 2.0 in 2023 to 5.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311412 · Blue Anchor, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 107% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #5/12
  • PHOTO Blue Anchor Manufact…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~145 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Blue Anchor Manufacturing Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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Blue Anchor Manufacturing Facility - KNA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blue Anchor Manufacturing Facility - KNA averages 3.5 TCR (107% of the Frozen waffles manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Blue Anchor Manufacturing Facility - KNA TCR series: 2023=2 · 2024=5 · BLS 3.3

Where Blue Anchor Manufacturing Facility - KNA falls in its industry

274 Frozen waffles manufacturing establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 12 Frozen waffles manufacturing employers in New Jersey.

Blue Anchor Manufacturing Facility - KNA (145 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 201 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Blue Anchor Manufacturing Facility - KNA
Blue Anchor Manufacturing Facility - KNA (145 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 201 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Blue Anchor Manufacturing Facility - KNA has fewer employees than the Frozen waffles manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 5.0 3.6 7 0 0
2023 2.0 2.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311412 · NJ · Blue Anchor

274 Frozen waffles manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 3 employers in Blue Anchor, 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 Blue Anchor Manufacturing Facility 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CJ TMI Manufacturing Corp Robbinsville 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grilled Sandwiches, LLC. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Monogram Appetizers Post Road 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Pipe Contractors, Inc. 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cibao Meat Products Inc. 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sika Corporation - Corporate 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sika Corporation 145 FTE
CITY-NEAR Garvey Corporation 110 FTE
NAT-TCR IN - DeMotte 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Cargill Industrial Specialties - Chicago, IL 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Herzog Transit Services Inc - Kc 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 1016 - BELFOR Medford OR 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pettus Plumbing & Piping, Inc. 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE Johnson County Health and Rehab, LLC 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE JR Balsan/DBA Johnstone Supply 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE Uchiyama MFG America LLC 145 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.