Die-casting dies manufacturing · New Jersey

L&Z Tool and Engineering, Inc.

Watchung, NJ · ~28 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

L&Z Tool and Engineering, Inc. runs at 190% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Die-casting dies manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

L&Z Tool and Engineering, Inc.: 6.3 TCR = 190% of Die-casting dies manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

L&Z Tool and Engineering, Inc. safety composite

L&Z Tool and Engineering, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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).

F

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.4

2021→2024

L&Z Tool and Engineering, Inc. injury rate improved

L&Z Tool and Engineering, Inc.'s TCR fell 5.4 from 8.6 in 2021 to 3.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 13.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=8.6 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=13.4 · 2024=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333511 · Watchung, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 190% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK P29
  • PHOTO RH Sheppard
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RH Sheppard (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · New Jersey employers → · Look up another →

L&Z Tool and Engineering, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows L&Z Tool and Engineering, Inc. averages 6.3 TCR (190% of the Die-casting dies manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

L&Z Tool and Engineering, Inc. TCR series: 2021=8.6 · 2022=0 · 2023=13.4 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where L&Z Tool and Engineering, Inc. falls in its industry

216 Die-casting dies manufacturing establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
L&Z Tool and Engineering, Inc. (28 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate L&Z Tool and Engineering, Inc.
L&Z Tool and Engineering, Inc. (28 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.7

L&Z Tool and Engineering, Inc. has fewer employees than the Die-casting dies manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 3.2 3.2 1 0 0
2023 13.4 8.9 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 8.6 8.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333511 · NJ · Watchung

216 Die-casting dies manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 21 employers in Watchung, 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 RH Sheppard 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR H & H Mold and Tooling 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ashland Foundry & Machine Works, LLC 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manufacturing Specialties, Inc. 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ayr Wellness NJ LLC - Lakewood 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Jersey American Water - Farmingdale Production 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arc NJ LLC 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advanced Solar Products, Inc 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5111 259 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1155 - Watchung 236 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shop Rite of Watchung 150 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0906 WATCHUNG 135 FTE
NAT-TCR Jefferson Hospital 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DAX5 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - AKC1 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR A&B Beverage-OKC 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Windy Hill Farm, Inc. 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amerline Enterprises Co., Inc. 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pomps Tire - Green Bay Warehouse 100 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1046 Fairfield Avenue 28 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. 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.