Paper bags merchant wholesalers · New Jersey

Decker Tape Products

East Hanover, NJ · ~138 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Decker Tape Products runs at 315% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Paper bags merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Decker Tape Products: 6.9 TCR = 315% of Paper bags merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Decker Tape Products safety composite

Decker Tape Products scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.2

2023→2024

Decker Tape Products injury rate improved

Decker Tape Products's TCR fell 6.2 from 10.0 in 2023 to 3.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 10.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=10.0 · 2024=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424130 · East Hanover, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.9 · 315% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #8/11
  • PHOTO Main Office
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~138 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Main Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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Decker Tape Products in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Decker Tape Products averages 6.9 TCR (315% of the Paper bags merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Decker Tape Products TCR series: 2023=10 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Decker Tape Products falls in its industry

290 Paper bags merchant wholesaler establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 11 Paper bags merchant wholesaler employers in New Jersey.

Decker Tape Products (138 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Decker Tape Products
Decker Tape Products (138 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Decker Tape Products has more employees than the Paper bags merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2024 3.9 0.8 5 0 0
2023 10.0 5.4 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424130 · NJ · East Hanover

290 Paper bags merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 45 employers in East Hanover, 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 Main Office 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR River Valley Mill Paper 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Penn Jersey Paper 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Victory Packaging Houston 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Blue Anchor Manufacturing Facility 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Green Distribution 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advanced Biotech 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Acreage CCFNJ dba the botanist 138 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation 4,657 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novartis Pharmaceutical Sales Force 3,396 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novartis Pharmaceuticals Field Force 2,977 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mondelez Global North East HDQ - Sales 1,445 FTE
NAT-TCR Composite Approach 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Plant 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Beauport Ambulance Service, Inc. 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Industrial Building #5 (Location) 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Valdez 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greenbrier Parma 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pmg Pa 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roberts Tours and Transportation Inc, Hilo and Kona 138 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.

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