Starch glues manufacturing · New Jersey

Sika Corporation 995 Towbin Ave.

Lakewood, NJ · ~35 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sika Corporation 995 Towbin Ave. runs at 236% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Starch glues manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Sika Corporation 995 Towbin Ave.: 7.8 TCR = 236% of Starch glues manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sika Corporation 995 Towbin Ave. safety composite

Sika Corporation 995 Towbin Ave. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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%).

Sika Corporation 995 Towbin Ave. held a steady TCR band

Sika Corporation 995 Towbin Ave.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 7.8 in 2019 to 7.8 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=7.8 · 2020=7.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325520 · Lakewood, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 236% of ind

  • DART 7.8 DART
  • RANK #14/15
  • PHOTO Daubert Chemical Com…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Daubert Chemical Company (0.1 TCR gap)

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Sika Corporation 995 Towbin Ave. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sika Corporation 995 Towbin Ave. averages 7.8 TCR (236% of the Starch glues manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sika Corporation 995 Towbin Ave. TCR series: 2019=7.8 · 2020=7.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Sika Corporation 995 Towbin Ave. falls in its industry

287 Starch glues manufacturing establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 15 Starch glues manufacturing employers in New Jersey.

Sika Corporation 995 Towbin Ave. (35 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 Sika Corporation 995 Towbin Ave.
Sika Corporation 995 Towbin Ave. (35 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Sika Corporation 995 Towbin Ave. has fewer employees than the Starch glues manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 7.8 7.8 3 0 0
2019 7.8 7.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325520 · NJ · Lakewood

287 Starch glues manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 94 employers in Lakewood, 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 Daubert Chemical Company 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chem Link 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Uniseal (Grove) 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chemence Alderman 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE New Jersey 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mc Gowan Builders, Inc. 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE JMR Construction Corp 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE RR/Michels JV -MTA Reroute ESA 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR NJ-04 4,429 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tender Touch Rehab Services 2,997 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monmouth Medical Center - Southern Campus 622 FTE
CITY-NEAR Renaissane Lakewood LLC 598 FTE
NAT-TCR Loretto Motherhouse Infirmary 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Grand Pacific MarBrisa Owners Assn. Inc. 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Augustana Signe Burckhardt Manor 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Express Electric Company 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Solar Turbines Incorporated DEPI Office 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE MITO Corporation 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Robinson Electric 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Studebaker Electric 35 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.