Packaging, plastics (e.g., blister, bubble), manufacturing · New Jersey

Buena

Buena, NJ · ~212 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buena runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Packaging, plastics (e.g., blister, bubble), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Buena: 1.9 TCR = 56% of Packaging, plastics (e.g., blister, bubble), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buena safety composite

Buena scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.51 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

Buena: 0.9 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.9× in 2024

Buena's TCR rose 2.6 from 0.9 in 2016 to 3.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Buena, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 56% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #18/44
  • PHOTO CertainTeed Corporat…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~212 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CertainTeed Corporation Williamsport Maryland (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buena in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buena averages 1.9 TCR (56% of the Packaging, plastics (e.g., blister, bubble), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Buena TCR series: 2016=0.9 · 2017=2.4 · 2018=0.9 · 2019=0.4 · 2020=1.9 · 2021=1 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=3.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Buena falls in its industry

2,838 Packaging, plastics (e.g., bli establishments

Safer than 78% 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 #18 safest of 44 Packaging, plastics (e.g., bli employers in New Jersey.

Buena (212 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Buena
Buena (212 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Buena has more employees than the Packaging, plastics (e.g., blister, bubb 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
2024 3.5 3.5 7 0 0
2023 3.5 1.0 7 0 0
2022 2.2 2.2 4 0 0
2021 1.0 1.0 2 0 0
2020 1.9 1.5 5 0 0
2019 0.4 0.4 1 0 0
2018 0.9 0.5 2 0 0
2017 2.4 1.8 4 0 0
2016 0.9 0.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · NJ · Buena

2,838 Packaging, plastics (e.g., blister, bubble), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 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 CertainTeed Corporation Williamsport Maryland 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Weathergard Window Company Inc 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR L. F. Manufacturing, Inc. Main Plant 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Letica-Kentucky 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Naturex, Inc. 212 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6340-COOPERFRIEDMAN-001017_US_S0756 212 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cranbury Sales & DSD Facility 212 FTE
STATE-SIZE Reckitt 212 FTE
CITY-NEAR WAWA SITE - 380 68 FTE
NAT-TCR Green Bay Store 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR West Coast Dredging 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR BEST Access Solutions, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Interstate Warehousing Inc 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Western Harvesting 212 FTE
NAT-SIZE Warren Paving Inc 212 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Antonio Machine Shop 212 FTE
NAT-SIZE Polygon US6 212 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.