Dried foods (e.g., fruits, milk, vegetables) merchant wholesalers · New Jersey

Kast Distributors

Carneys Point, NJ · ~93 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kast Distributors runs at 194% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Dried foods (e.g., fruits, milk, vegetables) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Kast Distributors: 4.3 TCR = 194% of Dried foods (e.g., fruits, milk, vegetables) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kast Distributors safety composite

Kast Distributors scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 91% 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).

C

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% 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%).

TCR Δ

−142.0

2016→2024

Kast Distributors injury rate improved

Kast Distributors's TCR fell 142.0 from 142.9 in 2016 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 142.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=142.9 · 2017=4.6 · 2019=8.9 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · Carneys Point, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 194% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/34
  • PHOTO WI - Windsor - 6493 …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~93 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WI - Windsor - 6493 Blanchars Crossing - The American Bottling Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kast Distributors in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kast Distributors averages 4.3 TCR (194% of the Dried foods (e.g., fruits, milk, vegetables) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Kast Distributors TCR series: 2016=142.9 · 2017=4.6 · 2019=8.9 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Kast Distributors falls in its industry

1,278 Dried foods (e.g., fruits, mil establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 34 Dried foods (e.g., fruits, mil employers in New Jersey.

Kast Distributors (93 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kast Distributors
Kast Distributors (93 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Kast Distributors has more employees than the Dried foods (e.g., fruits, milk, vegetab median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2023 3.5 3.5 4 0 0
2022 3.5 3.5 4 0 0
2019 8.9 8.9 8 0 0
2017 4.6 4.6 4 0 0
2016 142.9 142.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · NJ · Carneys Point

1,278 Dried foods (e.g., fruits, milk, vegetables) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 4 employers in Carneys Point, 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 WI - Windsor - 6493 Blanchars Crossing - The American Bottling Company 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR BakeMark USA Pico Distribution 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Minneapolis 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR DODGE CITY KS 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Automatic Rolls of New Jersey 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Harris Freeman Group of Companies NJ 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lallypak Inc 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Owens Corning Roofing Plant 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR NEW JERSEY 589 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southgate Health Care Center 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carneys Point Generating Plant 40 FTE
NAT-TCR Singing River Electric Cooperative - Sand Hill Office 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR ERI Plainfield, IN 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Lamar Facility 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Lewis Brothers Lumber Co., Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bassham Wholesale Egg Co. Inc. 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE 030-Kansas City 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Excel Manufacturing Inc. 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oakwood Care Center 93 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, 2019, 2017, 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.