Food research and development laboratories or services (except biotechnology research and development) · New Jersey

Culinary Engineering/NJ HQ

Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ · ~160 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Culinary Engineering/NJ HQ runs at 892% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Food research and development laboratories or services (except biotechnology research and development) workplace, earning a grade F.

Culinary Engineering/NJ HQ: 4.5 TCR = 892% of Food research and development laboratories or services (except biotechnology research and development) BLS 0.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Culinary Engineering/NJ HQ safety composite

Culinary Engineering/NJ HQ scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 0.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.4

2023→2024

Culinary Engineering/NJ HQ injury rate improved

Culinary Engineering/NJ HQ's TCR fell 6.4 from 7.7 in 2023 to 1.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=7.7 · 2024=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541712 · Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 4.5 · 892% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #16/16
  • PHOTO American Preclinical…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~160 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: American Preclinical Services (0.0 TCR gap)

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Culinary Engineering/NJ HQ in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Culinary Engineering/NJ HQ averages 4.5 TCR (892% of the Food research and development laboratories or services (except biotechnology research and development) BLS benchmark).

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

Culinary Engineering/NJ HQ TCR series: 2023=7.7 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 0.5

Where Culinary Engineering/NJ HQ falls in its industry

319 Food research and development establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 16 Food research and development employers in New Jersey.

Culinary Engineering/NJ HQ (160 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 159 employees and a TCR of 0.8 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Culinary Engineering/NJ HQ
Culinary Engineering/NJ HQ (160 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 159 employees and a TCR of 0.8

Culinary Engineering/NJ HQ has more employees than the Food research and development laboratori median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.8. 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 1.2 0.6 1 1 0
2023 7.7 7.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541712 · NJ · Parsippany-Troy Hills

319 Food research and development laboratories or services (except biotechnology research and development) 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 American Preclinical Services 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Daimler Trucks North America LLC - Corp 2 - Product Validation Engineering 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR IfA-MKSS 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR UH/OVPRI/OANRP 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE LiDestri Pennsauken 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amcor Rigid Packaging Millville 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE Custom Building Products PHLC 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE PL Custom Body & Equipment 160 FTE
NAT-TCR Dave Sinclair Lincoln 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Freightliner of Lancaster 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Joseph Industries 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Grocery Outlet of Lincoln City 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Style Crest - MFG 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kariout LLC - Scotia 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2547 - Palm Bay 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heraeus Quartz NA LLC 160 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.