Chocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans · New Jersey

Ferrero U.S.A., Inc.

Somerset, NJ · ~340 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ferrero U.S.A., Inc. runs at 24% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Chocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans workplace, earning a grade A.

Ferrero U.S.A., Inc.: 1.0 TCR = 24% of Chocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans BLS 4.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ferrero U.S.A., Inc. safety composite

Ferrero U.S.A., Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

Ferrero U.S.A., Inc.: 1.0 → 1.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.29× in 2024

Ferrero U.S.A., Inc.'s TCR rose 0.7 from 1.0 in 2021 to 1.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311351 · Somerset, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 24% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK P94
  • PHOTO ELZ
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~340 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ELZ (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ferrero U.S.A., Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ferrero U.S.A., Inc. averages 1.0 TCR (24% of the Chocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans BLS benchmark).

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

Ferrero U.S.A., Inc. TCR series: 2021=1 · 2022=1 · 2023=0.3 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 4.2

Where Ferrero U.S.A., Inc. falls in its industry

65 Chocolate, confectionery, made establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Ferrero U.S.A., Inc. (340 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 178 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ferrero U.S.A., Inc.
Ferrero U.S.A., Inc. (340 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 178 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Ferrero U.S.A., Inc. has more employees than the Chocolate, confectionery, made from caca 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 1.7 0.3 6 0 0
2023 0.3 0.3 1 0 0
2022 1.0 0.2 4 0 0
2021 1.0 0.5 2 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311351 · NJ · Somerset

65 Chocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 134 employers in Somerset, 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 ELZ 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wilbur Chocolate 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Demets Candy Co 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR TCHO Ventures 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Actavis Elizabeth LLC - Elizabeth, NJ Location 340 FTE
STATE-SIZE Egg Harbor Twp. Garage 340 FTE
STATE-SIZE L'Oreal - Piscataway Manufacturing 341 FTE
STATE-SIZE Avalon Flooring 339 FTE
CITY-NEAR Catalent 4,825 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - TEB9 2,642 FTE
CITY-NEAR PIM Brands 682 FTE
CITY-NEAR Somerset 642 FTE
NAT-TCR Microchip Technology Inc. Lawrence 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Industrial Specialty Services USA LLC - Gonzales 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pacific Steamex Cleaning Systems, Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR RGC Rick Gilchrist Co., Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE TTM Technologies 340 FTE
NAT-SIZE LANCER Worldwide 340 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sysco Ventura 340 FTE
NAT-SIZE Radisson 340 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, 2021. 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.