Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing · New Jersey

Lanxess Corporation - Fords, NJ

Fords, NJ · ~73 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lanxess Corporation - Fords, NJ runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Lanxess Corporation - Fords, NJ: 1.1 TCR = 32% of Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lanxess Corporation - Fords, NJ safety composite

Lanxess Corporation - Fords, NJ scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

Lanxess Corporation - Fords, NJ: 0.0 → 2.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2.6× in 2024

Lanxess Corporation - Fords, NJ's TCR rose 2.7 from 0.0 in 2020 to 2.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325199 · Fords, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 32% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #7/16
  • PHOTO Entegris, Riegelwood
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~73 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Entegris, Riegelwood (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lanxess Corporation - Fords, NJ in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lanxess Corporation - Fords, NJ averages 1.1 TCR (32% of the Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Lanxess Corporation - Fords, NJ TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=1.5 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Lanxess Corporation - Fords, NJ falls in its industry

552 Natural nonfood coloring, manu establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 16 Natural nonfood coloring, manu employers in New Jersey.

Lanxess Corporation - Fords, NJ (73 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 02004006008001,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Lanxess Corporation - Fords, NJ
Lanxess Corporation - Fords, NJ (73 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Lanxess Corporation - Fords, NJ has more employees than the Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2024 2.7 2.7 2 0 0
2022 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325199 · NJ · Fords

552 Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 9 employers in Fords, 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 Entegris, Riegelwood 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Lubrizol Corporation 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Symrise - Colonels Island 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR BioVeritas, LLC 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE South Jersey Gas Glassboro 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE NA-US-NJ-Blackwood-Lower Landing Road 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lucas Construction Group, Inc. 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE R.E. PIERSON CONSTRUCTION - DE 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR Zack Painting Co., Inc. 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lanxess Solutions US, Inc. - Fords, NJ 78 FTE
CITY-NEAR Magnolia Logistics, Inc. 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR H & H Transportation, Inc. 32 FTE
NAT-TCR ASTRO 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR NYC Port Authority 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Thorpe 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR LCN 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Columbia 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Henkels & McCoy, Massachusetts - Oxford 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE DSP 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Buckhorn Nursery Ltd 73 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, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.