Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage · New Jersey

Dawn Foods Northeast

Piscataway, NJ · ~106 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.5
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dawn Foods Northeast runs at 216% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage workplace, earning a grade F.

Dawn Foods Northeast: 12.5 TCR = 216% of Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage BLS 5.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dawn Foods Northeast safety composite

Dawn Foods Northeast scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Dawn Foods Northeast: 9.1 → 15.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 15.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.19× in 2018

Dawn Foods Northeast's TCR rose 6.8 from 9.1 in 2016 to 15.9 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493120 · Piscataway, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 12.5 · 216% of ind

  • DART 14.9 DART
  • RANK #39/39
  • PHOTO Co 19 Maines Paper &…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~106 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Co 19 Maines Paper & Food Service, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Dawn Foods Northeast in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dawn Foods Northeast averages 12.5 TCR (216% of the Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage BLS benchmark).

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

Dawn Foods Northeast TCR series: 2016=9.1 · 2018=15.9 · BLS 5.8

Where Dawn Foods Northeast falls in its industry

1,039 Refrigerated Warehousing and S establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 39 Refrigerated Warehousing and S employers in New Jersey.

Dawn Foods Northeast (106 employees, TCR 12.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Dawn Foods Northeast
Dawn Foods Northeast (106 employees, TCR 12.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Dawn Foods Northeast has more employees than the Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2018 15.9 14.9 16 0 0
2016 9.1 6.6 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493120 · NJ · Piscataway

1,039 Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 124 employers in Piscataway, 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 Co 19 Maines Paper & Food Service, Inc. 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Costa Fruit and Produce Company 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Perry Distribution Center 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR PRODUCE WAREHOUSE 12.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Henkels & McCoy, New Jersey - Cliffwood 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE CHRIS ANDERSEN ROOFING, A TECTA AMERICA COMPANY, LLC 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE Power Electric, Co. Inc. 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE MMC Contractors Northeast, Inc. 106 FTE
CITY-NEAR Global Technology Center, Colgate - Palmolive 1,042 FTE
CITY-NEAR Colgate-Palmolive Global Technology Center 978 FTE
CITY-NEAR Colgate-Palmolive Company 978 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ferraro Foods 733 FTE
NAT-TCR Greenland Const., Inc. 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Pierre (Sdpie) 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 0059 - Aurora, Co 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant 602 12.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kiel Dairy Foods Plant 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE ModRoto Madison, IN 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Logistics Company - Benning TMP 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 7 106 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: 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.