Potato chips manufacturing · New Jersey

Wise Foods, Inc. - Moonachie, NJ

Moonachie, NJ · ~27 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Wise Foods, Inc. - Moonachie, NJ runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Potato chips manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Wise Foods, Inc. - Moonachie, NJ: 5.3 TCR = 130% of Potato chips manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wise Foods, Inc. - Moonachie, NJ safety composite

Wise Foods, Inc. - Moonachie, NJ scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

Wise Foods, Inc. - Moonachie, NJ: 3.6 → 7.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 7.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.33× in 2017

Wise Foods, Inc. - Moonachie, NJ's TCR rose 3.5 from 3.6 in 2016 to 7.1 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Moonachie, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 130% of ind

  • DART 7.1 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO GF Birmingham Manufa…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GF Birmingham Manufacturing (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · New Jersey employers → · Look up another →

Wise Foods, Inc. - Moonachie, NJ in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wise Foods, Inc. - Moonachie, NJ averages 5.3 TCR (130% of the Potato chips manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Wise Foods, Inc. - Moonachie, NJ TCR series: 2016=3.6 · 2017=7.1 · BLS 4.1

Where Wise Foods, Inc. - Moonachie, NJ falls in its industry

253 Potato chips manufacturing establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

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 7 Potato chips manufacturing employers in New Jersey.

Wise Foods, Inc. - Moonachie, NJ (27 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Wise Foods, Inc. - Moonachie, NJ
Wise Foods, Inc. - Moonachie, NJ (27 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Wise Foods, Inc. - Moonachie, NJ has fewer employees than the Potato chips manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2017 7.1 7.1 2 0 0
2016 3.6 3.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · NJ · Moonachie

253 Potato chips manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 39 employers in Moonachie, 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 GF Birmingham Manufacturing 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR La Colonial Tortilla Products, Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR YORK PLANT 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rudolph Foods Dallas 5.3 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 AMZL : DEW1 1,026 FTE
CITY-NEAR 7.07E+16 288 FTE
CITY-NEAR FedEx 100 REDNECK AVE 159 FTE
CITY-NEAR Terra Chips 141 FTE
NAT-TCR West Chester (Pawes) 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Roseburg (Orros) 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mansfield (Ohman) 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Denison Center (Iadsn) 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE U.S office- Sales & Distribution- Lewmar Inc. 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midwest Scrap Management PC 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0346 - Hialeah, Fl 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0296 - Spokane, Wa 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.