Hair preparations (e.g., conditioners, dyes, rinses, shampoos) manufacturing · New Jersey

Guest Packaging LLC.

Rahway, NJ · ~164 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Guest Packaging LLC. runs at 85% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Hair preparations (e.g., conditioners, dyes, rinses, shampoos) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Guest Packaging LLC.: 2.8 TCR = 85% of Hair preparations (e.g., conditioners, dyes, rinses, shampoos) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Guest Packaging LLC. safety composite

Guest Packaging LLC. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Guest Packaging LLC.: 1.3 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.04× in 2024

Guest Packaging LLC.'s TCR rose 1.6 from 1.3 in 2016 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325620 · Rahway, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 85% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #27/37
  • PHOTO Vee Pak - Countrysid…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~164 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vee Pak - Countryside, IL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Guest Packaging LLC. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Guest Packaging LLC. averages 2.8 TCR (85% of the Hair preparations (e.g., conditioners, dyes, rinses, shampoos) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Guest Packaging LLC. TCR series: 2016=1.3 · 2019=3 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=4.3 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Guest Packaging LLC. falls in its industry

260 Hair preparations (e.g., condi establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 37 Hair preparations (e.g., condi employers in New Jersey.

Guest Packaging LLC. (164 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 161 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Guest Packaging LLC.
Guest Packaging LLC. (164 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 161 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Guest Packaging LLC. has more employees than the Hair preparations (e.g., conditioners, d median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 2.9 2.9 4 0 0
2023 3.8 1.9 1 3 0
2022 2.6 1.6 4 1 0
2021 4.3 2.5 3 4 0
2020 1.6 1.6 0 2 0
2019 3.0 1.0 5 1 0
2016 1.3 1.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325620 · NJ · Rahway

260 Hair preparations (e.g., conditioners, dyes, rinses, shampoos) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 42 employers in Rahway, 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 Vee Pak - Countryside, IL 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Agilex Fragrances 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Terry Laboratories, LLC 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Biocogent, LLC 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE RPM Management, LLC 164 FTE
STATE-SIZE Creamer Sanzari, Joint Venture 164 FTE
STATE-SIZE G&F GRAPHICS/INSERTS EAST 164 FTE
STATE-SIZE Johnson Matthey Health -WD 164 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rahway, NJ Facility 4,475 FTE
CITY-NEAR RWJ University Hospital Rahway 865 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wytech Industries LLC 227 FTE
CITY-NEAR Guest Packaging (Rahway) 202 FTE
NAT-TCR Benchmark Automation, LLC 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Top Manufacturing Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Eagle Motor Freight Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR O&R Middletown 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE SA Recycling, Gwinnett 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prospect of Orlando 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wallwork Truck Center- Fargo 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE Road and Highway Builders 164 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, 2020, 2019, 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.