Chili pepper or powder manufacturing · New Jersey

Gel Spice Company, Inc.

Bayonne, NJ · ~353 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gel Spice Company, Inc. runs at 220% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Chili pepper or powder manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Gel Spice Company, Inc.: 9.0 TCR = 220% of Chili pepper or powder manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gel Spice Company, Inc. safety composite

Gel Spice Company, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

Gel Spice Company, Inc.: 4.2 → 13.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 13.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.56× in 2020

Gel Spice Company, Inc.'s TCR rose 9.7 from 4.2 in 2019 to 13.8 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311942 · Bayonne, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 220% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #20/20
  • PHOTO Goldstein & Burton d…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 51 inj
  • SIZE ~353 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Goldstein & Burton dba Nu Products Seasoning Co. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Gel Spice Company, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gel Spice Company, Inc. averages 9.0 TCR (220% of the Chili pepper or powder manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Gel Spice Company, Inc. TCR series: 2019=4.2 · 2020=13.8 · BLS 4.1

Where Gel Spice Company, Inc. falls in its industry

200 Chili pepper or powder manufac establishments

Safer than 7% 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 #20 safest of 20 Chili pepper or powder manufac employers in New Jersey.

Gel Spice Company, Inc. (353 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Gel Spice Company, Inc.
Gel Spice Company, Inc. (353 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Gel Spice Company, Inc. has more employees than the Chili pepper or powder manufacturing median and a higher 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
2020 13.8 5.0 38 17 0
2019 4.2 2.9 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311942 · NJ · Bayonne

200 Chili pepper or powder manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 45 employers in Bayonne, 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 Goldstein & Burton dba Nu Products Seasoning Co. 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wauwatosa Warehouse 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Faribault Foods 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR New York Locations 9.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Frank Gargiulo & Son, Inc. 353 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 4456 353 FTE
STATE-SIZE Port Authority Contract 353 FTE
STATE-SIZE US - Supply Chain : 0010 352 FTE
CITY-NEAR NJBAY - BAYONNE 916 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5867 423 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5867 379 FTE
CITY-NEAR ofi - Bayonne 375 FTE
NAT-TCR Mannington Covington DC 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Concrete Industries, Inc. 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Amzl : Dtp2 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR McConnelsville Save A Lot #45090 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cedar Springs Public Schools 353 FTE
NAT-SIZE Great HealthWorks, Inc. 353 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kroeschell, Inc. 353 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilltop Health Services Corporation- 1129 Colorado Ave 353 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: 2020, 2019. 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.