Prepared sauces (except gravy, tomato based) manufacturing · New Jersey

Kariout LLC - Totowa

Totowa, NJ · ~183 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kariout LLC - Totowa runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Prepared sauces (except gravy, tomato based) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Kariout LLC - Totowa: 3.6 TCR = 88% of Prepared sauces (except gravy, tomato based) manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kariout LLC - Totowa safety composite

Kariout LLC - Totowa scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

Kariout LLC - Totowa: 2.5 → 4.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.09× in 2024

Kariout LLC - Totowa's TCR rose 2.2 from 2.5 in 2022 to 4.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311941 · Totowa, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 88% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK P51
  • PHOTO Ventura Foods Saginaw
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~183 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ventura Foods Saginaw (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kariout LLC - Totowa in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kariout LLC - Totowa averages 3.6 TCR (88% of the Prepared sauces (except gravy, tomato based) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kariout LLC - Totowa TCR series: 2022=2.5 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=4.7 · BLS 4.1

Where Kariout LLC - Totowa falls in its industry

134 Prepared sauces (except gravy, establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Kariout LLC - Totowa (183 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 Kariout LLC - Totowa
Kariout LLC - Totowa (183 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Kariout LLC - Totowa has more employees than the Prepared sauces (except gravy, tomato ba median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 4.7 3.9 12 0 0
2023 3.6 2.0 8 1 0
2022 2.5 1.8 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311941 · NJ · Totowa

134 Prepared sauces (except gravy, tomato based) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 44 employers in Totowa, 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 Ventura Foods Saginaw 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mizkan America Inc. Belding MI 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heritage Family Specialty Foods, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR OTAFUKU FOODS, INC 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Garden State Growers LLC 183 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fine Group Inc 183 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bind-Rite Services Inc. 183 FTE
STATE-SIZE Omega Plastics Corporation 183 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cibovita.Inc 759 FTE
CITY-NEAR NJ03 - Totowa Fulfillment Center 597 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harmon Totowa 8650 415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harmon Totowa 8650 8650 366 FTE
NAT-TCR 9435 - Midlothian Fulfillment Center 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Fresno Equipment Company- Five Points 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Thirteen RF, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bobcat of Houston - Jersey Village 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Vicarious Surgical Inc. 183 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nova Center of the Ozarks 183 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rotex Global LLC 183 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southernmost Beach Resort 183 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.

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