Nationality specialty foods, frozen, manufacturing · New Jersey

Dr Praegers Sensible Foods Inc

Elmwood Park, NJ · ~263 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dr Praegers Sensible Foods Inc runs at 102% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Nationality specialty foods, frozen, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Dr Praegers Sensible Foods Inc: 3.4 TCR = 102% of Nationality specialty foods, frozen, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dr Praegers Sensible Foods Inc safety composite

Dr Praegers Sensible Foods Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

Dr Praegers Sensible Foods Inc: 3.4 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.3× in 2024

Dr Praegers Sensible Foods Inc's TCR rose 1.0 from 3.4 in 2022 to 4.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311412 · Elmwood Park, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 102% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #2/12
  • PHOTO Frozen Specialty Foo…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~263 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Frozen Specialty Food Manufacturing - DSD (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dr Praegers Sensible Foods Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dr Praegers Sensible Foods Inc averages 3.4 TCR (102% of the Nationality specialty foods, frozen, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Dr Praegers Sensible Foods Inc TCR series: 2022=3.4 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=4.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Dr Praegers Sensible Foods Inc falls in its industry

274 Nationality specialty foods, f establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 12 Nationality specialty foods, f employers in New Jersey.

Dr Praegers Sensible Foods Inc (263 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 201 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Dr Praegers Sensible Foods Inc
Dr Praegers Sensible Foods Inc (263 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 201 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Dr Praegers Sensible Foods Inc has more employees than the Nationality specialty foods, frozen, man median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 4.4 4.4 10 1 0
2023 2.3 2.3 6 0 0
2022 3.4 1.0 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311412 · NJ · Elmwood Park

274 Nationality specialty foods, frozen, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 25 employers in Elmwood Park, 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 Frozen Specialty Food Manufacturing - DSD 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vam Foods 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR White Castle Distributing LLC Covington 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hagerstown MD 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE #578 South Plainfield Shoprite 263 FTE
STATE-SIZE 9123-EWR-PRIMEFLIGHT AVIATION SERVICES, INC. 263 FTE
STATE-SIZE Linden Distribution Center 263 FTE
STATE-SIZE Celgene Corp. - 300 Connell Drive 263 FTE
CITY-NEAR Soundview Paper Company - Elmwood Park 290 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kreisler Industrial Corp 185 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grant Industries Inc. 178 FTE
CITY-NEAR 55807 Bergen County 139 FTE
NAT-TCR Haviland Enterprises, Inc. - North 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR TransPak - DIV 182 LOGISTICS 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hi Pro Feeds Cheyenne 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 1844 Nw Victorville 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE TX173 263 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Food Stores 6447 263 FTE
NAT-SIZE Four Seasons Atlanta 263 FTE
NAT-SIZE BlueScope Buildings North America BBNA 263 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.