Coffee, instant and freeze dried, manufacturing · New Jersey

Nestle Freehold

Freehold, NJ · ~265 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nestle Freehold runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Coffee, instant and freeze dried, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Nestle Freehold: 2.3 TCR = 56% of Coffee, instant and freeze dried, manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nestle Freehold safety composite

Nestle Freehold scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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

−0.4

2016→2017

Nestle Freehold injury rate improved

Nestle Freehold's TCR fell 0.4 from 2.5 in 2016 to 2.1 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 2.5 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.5 · 2017=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311920 · Freehold, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 56% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #4/10
  • PHOTO East West Tea Company
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~265 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: East West Tea Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nestle Freehold in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nestle Freehold averages 2.3 TCR (56% of the Coffee, instant and freeze dried, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Nestle Freehold TCR series: 2016=2.5 · 2017=2.1 · BLS 4.1

Where Nestle Freehold falls in its industry

169 Coffee, instant and freeze dri establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

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 10 Coffee, instant and freeze dri employers in New Jersey.

Nestle Freehold (265 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Nestle Freehold
Nestle Freehold (265 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Nestle Freehold has more employees than the Coffee, instant and freeze dried, manufa median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2017 2.1 1.5 3 4 0
2016 2.5 1.3 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311920 · NJ · Freehold

169 Coffee, instant and freeze dried, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 82 employers in Freehold, 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 East West Tea Company 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Starbucks Company York Roasting Plant 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR EQUAL EXCHANGE, INC. 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR JMS Foodservice LLC - Harahan 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE TerraCycle 265 FTE
STATE-SIZE NJ.PARSI.16 - Ricoh Americas Holdings, Inc 265 FTE
STATE-SIZE ShopRite of Succasunna 265 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0074 - PAS 265 FTE
CITY-NEAR CentraState Medical Center 1,962 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3236 314 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3236 301 FTE
CITY-NEAR IPLAY 291 FTE
NAT-TCR Yokohama Tire Corporation - Auburn DC 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Quirk Chevrolet Buick VW, NH (02895) 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Eastern North Regional Sales Office 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Redi-Mix, LLC Desoto 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hammond/East Lake (Inham) 265 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chuck & Don's Pet Food & Supplies 265 FTE
NAT-SIZE HNVAMD14 265 FTE
NAT-SIZE GA.ATLAN.348 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. 265 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: 2017, 2016. 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.