Nonwoven fabrics manufacturing · New Jersey

Pacon Manufacturing Corporation

Somerset, NJ · ~190 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pacon Manufacturing Corporation runs at 153% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Nonwoven fabrics manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Pacon Manufacturing Corporation: 5.1 TCR = 153% of Nonwoven fabrics manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pacon Manufacturing Corporation safety composite

Pacon Manufacturing Corporation scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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%).

Pacon Manufacturing Corporation held a steady TCR band

Pacon Manufacturing Corporation's TCR held near 0.3 from 4.9 in 2019 to 5.2 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.9 · 2020=5.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313230 · Somerset, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 153% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK P32
  • PHOTO Fibertex Nonwovens I…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~190 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fibertex Nonwovens INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pacon Manufacturing Corporation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pacon Manufacturing Corporation averages 5.1 TCR (153% of the Nonwoven fabrics manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Pacon Manufacturing Corporation TCR series: 2019=4.9 · 2020=5.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Pacon Manufacturing Corporation falls in its industry

191 Nonwoven fabrics manufacturing establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Pacon Manufacturing Corporation (190 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Pacon Manufacturing Corporation
Pacon Manufacturing Corporation (190 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Pacon Manufacturing Corporation has more employees than the Nonwoven fabrics manufacturing median and a higher 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 Fatalities
2020 5.2 1.0 10 0 0
2019 4.9 1.5 9 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313230 · NJ · Somerset

191 Nonwoven fabrics manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 134 employers in Somerset, 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 Fibertex Nonwovens INC. 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Airlite NonWoven 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR BUF 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR NCCM Company 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mittera - EarthColor Thebault 190 FTE
STATE-SIZE PCS Wireless LLC 190 FTE
STATE-SIZE American BD Company North 190 FTE
STATE-SIZE Woodhaven Lumber & Millwork - James St. 190 FTE
CITY-NEAR Catalent 4,825 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - TEB9 2,642 FTE
CITY-NEAR PIM Brands 682 FTE
CITY-NEAR Somerset 642 FTE
NAT-TCR JBS Retail Ready 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR CDTi 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Meijer Store 162 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR YMCA of Asheville 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Baker Interiors Furniture - Hildebran 190 FTE
NAT-SIZE Curtiss Wright Farris Engineering (10195 Brecksville) 190 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bureau of Natural Resources 190 FTE
NAT-SIZE Easley Plant 190 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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.