Dyes, industrial, merchant wholesalers · New Jersey

Spectra Colors

Kearny, NJ · ~27 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Spectra Colors runs at 351% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Dyes, industrial, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Spectra Colors: 7.7 TCR = 351% of Dyes, industrial, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Spectra Colors safety composite

Spectra Colors scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Spectra Colors: 3.6 → 14.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 14.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.85× in 2024

Spectra Colors's TCR rose 10.7 from 3.6 in 2018 to 14.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 14.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Kearny, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 351% of ind

  • DART 14.3 DART
  • RANK #20/21
  • PHOTO Tulsa Plant
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tulsa Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Spectra Colors in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Spectra Colors averages 7.7 TCR (351% of the Dyes, industrial, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Spectra Colors TCR series: 2018=3.6 · 2020=0 · 2021=14.3 · 2022=0 · 2023=14.3 · 2024=14.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Spectra Colors falls in its industry

766 Dyes, industrial, merchant who establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 21 Dyes, industrial, merchant who employers in New Jersey.

Spectra Colors (27 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Spectra Colors
Spectra Colors (27 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Spectra Colors has fewer employees than the Dyes, industrial, merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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
2024 14.3 14.3 4 0 0
2023 14.3 3.6 4 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 14.3 14.3 4 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.6 3.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · NJ · Kearny

766 Dyes, industrial, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 87 employers in Kearny, 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 Tulsa Plant 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Concord 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Texarkana TX 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2501 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE OCEAN SPRAY CRANBERRIES INC. - CHATSWORTH RECEIVING 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Concentric Group LLC 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pact Two, LLC 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Three Bridges-NYST 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR 335980-DVD BLDG NJ P&DC 1,456 FTE
CITY-NEAR DOMINICK V DANIELS_1441053 1,234 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5447 760 FTE
CITY-NEAR 335978-GREATER NEWARK NJ P&DC 716 FTE
NAT-TCR Stalwork Inc Office 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Meister Cheese Company LLC 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR SSA Terminals Terminal 18 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Historic Santa Maria Inn 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Prescott Valley AZ Yard 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE ITW Performance Polymers 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Turon Feed Yard 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Walter E Smithe Furniture, Inc- Glendale Heights 27 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, 2018. 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.