Frozen doughs made from purchased flour · New Jersey

rico foods inc

Paterson, NJ · ~40 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

rico foods inc runs at 202% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Frozen doughs made from purchased flour workplace, earning a grade F.

rico foods inc: 6.7 TCR = 202% of Frozen doughs made from purchased flour BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

rico foods inc safety composite

rico foods inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

rico foods inc: 5.5 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.13× in 2023

rico foods inc's TCR rose 2.0 from 5.5 in 2020 to 7.5 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311824 · Paterson, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 202% of ind

  • DART 7.5 DART
  • RANK #7/10
  • PHOTO BUSA-Dallas-Dist
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BUSA-Dallas-Dist (0.0 TCR gap)

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rico foods inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows rico foods inc averages 6.7 TCR (202% of the Frozen doughs made from purchased flour BLS benchmark).

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

rico foods inc TCR series: 2020=5.5 · 2021=7 · 2023=7.5 · BLS 3.3

Where rico foods inc falls in its industry

170 Frozen doughs made from purcha establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 10 Frozen doughs made from purcha employers in New Jersey.

rico foods inc (40 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate rico foods inc
rico foods inc (40 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 3.9

rico foods inc has fewer employees than the Frozen doughs made from purchased flour median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2023 7.5 7.5 3 0 0
2021 7.0 7.0 3 0 0
2020 5.5 5.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311824 · NJ · Paterson

170 Frozen doughs made from purchased flour employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 76 employers in Paterson, 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 BUSA-Dallas-Dist 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Interamerican Foods Corporation 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Domino's Supply Chain Center- Missouri 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maruchan Deere 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE MATHIS 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carneys Point Generating Plant 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE ACE- West Creek Operations 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE NJC 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6164-PATERSON 4,413 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph's Health & Med Center 4,220 FTE
CITY-NEAR Preakness Healthcare Center 421 FTE
CITY-NEAR J&K Ingredients LLC 323 FTE
NAT-TCR BSG Maintenance 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Wichita Terminal 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR OX Engineered Products 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR CommunityAid, Inc 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Agility MFG Inc 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kansas Brick & Tile 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mills Iron Works, Inc 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stell Enterprises, Inc. 40 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: 2023, 2021, 2020. 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.