Iron based pigments manufacturing · New Jersey

Sensient Colors LLC.

South Plainfield, NJ · ~66 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sensient Colors LLC. runs at 150% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Iron based pigments manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Sensient Colors LLC.: 5.0 TCR = 150% of Iron based pigments manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sensient Colors LLC. safety composite

Sensient Colors LLC. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Sensient Colors LLC.: 2.9 → 4.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 6.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

Sensient Colors LLC.'s TCR rose 1.8 from 2.9 in 2016 to 4.7 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.6 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325130 · South Plainfield, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 150% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Sun Cosmetics LLC
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sun Cosmetics LLC (0.4 TCR gap)

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Sensient Colors LLC. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sensient Colors LLC. averages 5.0 TCR (150% of the Iron based pigments manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sensient Colors LLC. TCR series: 2016=2.9 · 2017=6.1 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=6.6 · 2020=4.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Sensient Colors LLC. falls in its industry

75 Iron based pigments manufactur establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

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 4 Iron based pigments manufactur employers in New Jersey.

Sensient Colors LLC. (66 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sensient Colors LLC.
Sensient Colors LLC. (66 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Sensient Colors LLC. has fewer employees than the Iron based pigments manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 4.7 0.0 3 0 0
2019 6.6 4.0 4 1 0
2018 4.5 4.5 3 0 0
2017 6.1 4.5 4 0 0
2016 2.9 0.0 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325130 · NJ · South Plainfield

75 Iron based pigments manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 112 employers in South Plainfield, 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 Sun Cosmetics LLC 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Forth Technologies 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Chemical Solutions 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Holland Colours Americas 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sordoni Construction Company 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE NC&Sons 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Distribution Building 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Passaic County Roads Department 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR PSE&G NJ Projects & Construction 1,107 FTE
CITY-NEAR PSE&G NJ - DELIVERY PROJECT & CONSTRUCTION (DP&C) 868 FTE
CITY-NEAR Accurate Diagnostic Lab 492 FTE
CITY-NEAR G&W Laboratories, Inc. 363 FTE
NAT-TCR UEO N&L Poulsbo, WA Site 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR North Valley Hospital 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ankeny Diner 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Stetson Hardwoods, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Huntington 04 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE OMG EdgeSystems 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilton Garden Inn Charlotte Uptown 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Frazee-Vergas Schools - HS 66 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, 2018, 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.