Grocery Stores · Maryland

01653 - Store # 1653 Essex

Essex, MD · ~93 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

01653 - Store # 1653 Essex runs at 123% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

01653 - Store # 1653 Essex: 4.2 TCR = 123% of Grocery Stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

01653 - Store # 1653 Essex safety composite

01653 - Store # 1653 Essex scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

01653 - Store # 1653 Essex: 0.0 → 8.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.6× in 2023

01653 - Store # 1653 Essex's TCR rose 8.3 from 0.0 in 2022 to 8.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Essex, MD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 123% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #379/806
  • PHOTO Redner's Warehouse M…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~93 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Redner's Warehouse Market Elkton (0.0 TCR gap)

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01653 - Store # 1653 Essex in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 01653 - Store # 1653 Essex averages 4.2 TCR (123% of the Grocery Stores BLS benchmark).

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

01653 - Store # 1653 Essex TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=8.3 · BLS 3.4

Where 01653 - Store # 1653 Essex falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Stores establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #379 safest of 806 Grocery Stores employers in Maryland.

01653 - Store # 1653 Essex (93 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate 01653 - Store # 1653 Essex
01653 - Store # 1653 Essex (93 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

01653 - Store # 1653 Essex has fewer employees than the Grocery Stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2023 8.3 6.7 5 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MD · Essex

30,654 Grocery Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 19 employers in Essex, MD · 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 Redner's Warehouse Market Elkton 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0340 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0455 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0811 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Main Office 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Berg Corporation 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE ELKRIDGE MD DEPOT 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2807-4517 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DBA3 733 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - DBA3 195 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flavor & Fragrance Specialties 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flavor and Fragrance Specialties 79 FTE
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 100412 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Spiros Industries, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Mkg of Christiansburg Ii 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Jaysco Inc 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 0082 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100523 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Concord Litho Group, Inc. 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE L&S Packing Company 93 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.