Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale · New Jersey

Romaine Empire, Inc - Commerce

Name: Romaine Empire, Inc - Commerce Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Totowa, NJ · ~40 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.4
Avg TCR: 4.1
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Romaine Empire, Inc - Commerce runs at 83% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale workplace, earning a grade C.

Romaine Empire, Inc - Commerce: 3.4 TCR = 83% of Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Romaine Empire, Inc - Commerce safety composite

Romaine Empire, Inc - Commerce scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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).

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 3.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers
DART rate: F 6.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

Romaine Empire, Inc - Commerce: 0.0 → 6.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.8 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2023

Romaine Empire, Inc - Commerce's TCR rose 6.8 from 0.0 in 2022 to 6.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311991 · Totowa, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 83% of ind

DART 6.8 DART
RANK #10/18
PHOTO Supply Chain Center-…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Supply Chain Center- VEGGA (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Romaine Empire, Inc - Commerce averages 3.4 TCR (83% of the Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS benchmark).

Romaine Empire, Inc - Commerce TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=6.8 · BLS 4.1

Where Romaine Empire, Inc - Commerce falls in its industry

376 Prepared meals, perishable, pa establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 18 Prepared meals, perishable, pa employers in New Jersey.

Romaine Empire, Inc - Commerce (40 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Romaine Empire, Inc - Commerce has fewer employees than the Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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
2023	6.8	6.8	2	0	0
2022	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311991 · NJ · Totowa

376 Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 44 employers in Totowa, NJ · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Supply Chain Center- VEGGA	MARIETTA, GA	3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Texas Harvest Kitchen	HOUSTON, TX	3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Decatur West	DECATUR, AL	3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	CP Foods	SOUTH WINDSOR, CT	3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	MATHIS	LITTLE EGG HARBOR TWP	40 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Carneys Point Generating Plant	CARNEYS POINT	40 FTE
STATE-SIZE	ACE- West Creek Operations	WEST CREEK	40 FTE
STATE-SIZE	NJC	WALL TOWNSHIP	40 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Cibovita.Inc	Totowa	759 FTE
CITY-NEAR	NJ03 - Totowa Fulfillment Center	Totowa	597 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Harmon Totowa 8650	Totowa	415 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Harmon Totowa 8650 8650	Totowa	366 FTE
NAT-TCR	H.R. Ewell, Inc. Decatur Terminal	Decatur, IL	3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Divine House Inc. - Hutchinson	Hutchinson, MN	3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	The Legacy at St. Joseph's	Kenosha, WI	3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	McCarty and Company Construction LLC	Wheat Ridge, CO	3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Aquatic Center	Dallas, OR	40 FTE
NAT-SIZE	The Estates at Linden	Stillwater, MN	40 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Consolidated Construction Co. of Ala.	Huntsville, AL	40 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Hotel Tybee	Tybee Island, GA	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, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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