Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing · New Jersey

Custom Molders Group

Somerville, NJ · ~95 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Custom Molders Group runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Custom Molders Group: 2.2 TCR = 68% of Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Custom Molders Group safety composite

Custom Molders Group scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

−0.7

2023→2024

Custom Molders Group injury rate improved

Custom Molders Group's TCR fell 0.7 from 2.6 in 2023 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.6 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Somerville, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 68% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #21/44
  • PHOTO VPET USA LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~95 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: VPET USA LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Custom Molders Group in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Custom Molders Group averages 2.2 TCR (68% of the Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Custom Molders Group TCR series: 2023=2.6 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Custom Molders Group falls in its industry

2,838 Bottle caps and lids, plastics establishments

Safer than 70% 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 #21 safest of 44 Bottle caps and lids, plastics employers in New Jersey.

Custom Molders Group (95 employees, TCR 2.2) 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 Custom Molders Group
Custom Molders Group (95 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Custom Molders Group has fewer employees than the Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufact 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 1.9 0.0 2 0 0
2023 2.6 1.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · NJ · Somerville

2,838 Bottle caps and lids, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 19 employers in Somerville, 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 VPET USA LLC 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Summit Plastic Molding, Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR ViWinTech Windows & Doors Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Inteplast-Cartersville 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lendlease Princeton 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shamrock Construction Group Inc. 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corbin Electrical Services, Inc. 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE V.A.L. Floors, Inc. 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ethicon Somerville 2,125 FTE
CITY-NEAR RWJ University Hospital Somerset 2,018 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ethicon US Somerville 710 FTE
CITY-NEAR #470 Branchburg Shoprite 238 FTE
NAT-TCR Heart of Texas Electric Cooperative 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR USA Chicago 10255 West Zemke Blvd 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Buckeye Boxes 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Upland Fab Inc 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Welser Profile North America LLC 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pfannenberg Manufacturing LLC 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rose Medical 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lueder Construction Company 95 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.