Beverages, fruit and vegetable juice, manufacturing · New Jersey

Refresco Wharton

Wharton, NJ · ~269 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Refresco Wharton runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Beverages, fruit and vegetable juice, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Refresco Wharton: 6.3 TCR = 192% of Beverages, fruit and vegetable juice, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Refresco Wharton safety composite

Refresco Wharton scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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)
F 6.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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

−5.6

2018→2024

Refresco Wharton injury rate improved

Refresco Wharton's TCR fell 5.6 from 7.8 in 2018 to 2.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 10.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=7.8 · 2019=5.8 · 2020=5.4 · 2021=10.0 · 2022=7.2 · 2023=5.9 · 2024=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311421 · Wharton, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 192% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #11/11
  • PHOTO HPP Food Services
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 126 inj
  • SIZE ~269 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HPP Food Services (0.0 TCR gap)

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Refresco Wharton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Refresco Wharton averages 6.3 TCR (192% of the Beverages, fruit and vegetable juice, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Refresco Wharton TCR series: 2018=7.8 · 2019=5.8 · 2020=5.4 · 2021=10 · 2022=7.2 · 2023=5.9 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Refresco Wharton falls in its industry

330 Beverages, fruit and vegetable establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 11 Beverages, fruit and vegetable employers in New Jersey.

Refresco Wharton (269 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Refresco Wharton
Refresco Wharton (269 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Refresco Wharton has more employees than the Beverages, fruit and vegetable juice, ma median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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
2024 2.2 1.5 6 0 0
2023 5.9 4.0 19 0 0
2022 7.2 5.7 23 0 0
2021 10.0 3.5 19 12 0
2020 5.4 3.6 15 3 0
2019 5.8 4.6 19 0 0
2018 7.8 6.0 25 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311421 · NJ · Wharton

330 Beverages, fruit and vegetable juice, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 12 employers in Wharton, 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 HPP Food Services 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hausbeck Pickle Company 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seneca Foods Corporation 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR BA-TAMPTE PICKLE PRODUCTS, INC. 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eagle Creek Renewable Energy (Combined) 269 FTE
STATE-SIZE Impax Laboratories Inc. Middlesex 269 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC 269 FTE
STATE-SIZE Celularity 269 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dimensional Merchandising Inc. 475 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shoprite of Wharton 315 FTE
CITY-NEAR SHOPRITE OF WHARTON #487 309 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0315 - WHARTON NJ WHSE 266 FTE
NAT-TCR Majestic Metals, LLC 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Belmont Village Scottsdale 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mary Greeley Medical Center- Israel Family Hospice House 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Precision Mechanical Inc. 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cape Fear Valley Health System/Bladen County 269 FTE
NAT-SIZE VMG Construction Inc 269 FTE
NAT-SIZE Swagelok Micro/Atlantic 269 FTE
NAT-SIZE PaperWorks Industries Baldwinville 269 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.