Extracts, food (except coffee, meat), manufacturing · New Jersey

Kerry Ingredients

Name: Kerry Ingredients Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Clark, NJ · ~300 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 2.0
Avg TCR: 4.1
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Kerry Ingredients runs at 48% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Extracts, food (except coffee, meat), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Kerry Ingredients: 2.0 TCR = 48% of Extracts, food (except coffee, meat), manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kerry Ingredients safety composite

Kerry Ingredients scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% 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).

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers
DART rate: C 1.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

−1.5

2020→2024

Kerry Ingredients injury rate improved

Kerry Ingredients's TCR fell 1.5 from 3.0 in 2020 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=3.0 · 2021=2.2 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311942 · Clark, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 2.0 · 48% of ind

DART 1.4 DART
RANK #4/20
PHOTO Salt-Watkins Glen
BOOK 5y book
INJ 28 inj
SIZE ~300 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Salt-Watkins Glen (0.0 TCR gap)

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Salt- Hutchins

2.1
This site

2
Salt-Watkins G

2
Frutarom

2
IFF Formerly D

1.9

What this shows Kerry Ingredients averages 2.0 TCR (48% of the Extracts, food (except coffee, meat), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Kerry Ingredients TCR series: 2020=3 · 2021=2.2 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 4.1

Where Kerry Ingredients falls in its industry

200 Extracts, food (except coffee, establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 20 Extracts, food (except coffee, employers in New Jersey.

Kerry Ingredients (300 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Kerry Ingredients has more employees than the Extracts, food (except coffee, meat), ma 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
2024	1.4	1.4	4	0
2023	1.1	0.7	3	0
2022	2.3	2.3	7	0
2021	2.2	1.9	7	1
2020	3.0	2.0	7	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311942 · NJ · Clark

200 Extracts, food (except coffee, meat), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 21 employers in Clark, NJ · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Salt-Watkins Glen	WATKINS GLEN, NY	2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Frutarom	CORONA, CA	2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	IFF Formerly David Michael & Co., Inc.	PHILADELPHIA, PA	1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Salt- Hutchinson	HUTCHINSON, KS	2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Petillo Incorporated	FLANDERS	300 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Certech: Wood-Ridge, NJ	WOOD-RIDGE	300 FTE
STATE-SIZE	IKEA #154 Elizabeth	ELIZABETH	300 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Shoprite of Englewood	ENGLEWOOD	300 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ShopRite Of Clark	Clark	342 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Complete Care Clark	Clark	302 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Clark Board of Education	Clark	300 FTE
CITY-NEAR	1467 - Clark	Clark	256 FTE
NAT-TCR	Springdale Processing	Springdale, AR	2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Canyonville Burger King	Canyonville, OR	2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	KI High Point, NC Plant	High Point, NC	2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Wooster Family Health Center	Wooster, OH	2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE	City of Goshen	Goshen, IN	300 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Norwich Pharmaceuticals Inc.	Norwich, NY	300 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Honeywell/UOP AL37	Chickasaw, AL	300 FTE
NAT-SIZE	2303 - Lincoln SW	Lincoln, NE	300 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. 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.