Poultry, canned, merchant wholesalers · New Jersey

Maximum Quality Foods, Inc.

Linden, NJ · ~205 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Maximum Quality Foods, Inc. runs at 530% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Poultry, canned, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Maximum Quality Foods, Inc.: 11.7 TCR = 530% of Poultry, canned, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Maximum Quality Foods, Inc. safety composite

Maximum Quality Foods, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Maximum Quality Foods, Inc.: 12.0 → 14.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 14.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.06× in 2024

Maximum Quality Foods, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.0 from 12.0 in 2022 to 14.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · Linden, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.7 · 530% of ind

  • DART 12.3 DART
  • RANK #27/34
  • PHOTO Great Buns Bakery
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 67 inj
  • SIZE ~205 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Great Buns Bakery (0.0 TCR gap)

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Maximum Quality Foods, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Maximum Quality Foods, Inc. averages 11.7 TCR (530% of the Poultry, canned, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Maximum Quality Foods, Inc. TCR series: 2022=12 · 2023=8.9 · 2024=14.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Maximum Quality Foods, Inc. falls in its industry

1,278 Poultry, canned, merchant whol establishments

Safer than 12% 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 #27 safest of 34 Poultry, canned, merchant whol employers in New Jersey.

Maximum Quality Foods, Inc. (205 employees, TCR 11.7) 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 Maximum Quality Foods, Inc.
Maximum Quality Foods, Inc. (205 employees, TCR 11.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Maximum Quality Foods, Inc. has more employees than the Poultry, canned, merchant wholesalers median and a higher 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 14.1 12.3 24 0 0
2023 8.9 6.8 17 0 0
2022 12.0 6.9 26 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · NJ · Linden

1,278 Poultry, canned, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 108 employers in Linden, 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 Great Buns Bakery 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR LORTON VA NEWINGTON 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR PA - Cranberry Township - 125 E. Kensinger Rd - The American Bottling Company 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Missoula Bottling Company 11.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE 10576 Clark 205 FTE
STATE-SIZE 10381 Closter 205 FTE
STATE-SIZE Global Specialty Fulfillment : EWR7 205 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1263 - Edgewater 205 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Apron Linden FC 879 FTE
CITY-NEAR Phillips66 Bayway Refinery 771 FTE
CITY-NEAR Central Staffing Solutions 766 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bayway Refinery 693 FTE
NAT-TCR Glen Meadows 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR EVEN Hotel Midtown East 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Detention Center 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR A Plus Powder Coaters, Inc. 11.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Worthington Steel Delta 205 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jacksonville Health and Rehabilitation, LLC 205 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kitchen Kompact, Inc. 205 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southwire El Paso 205 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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