Discount Department Stores · Maryland

1042 - Ellicott City

Ellicott City, MD · ~279 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1042 - Ellicott City runs at 166% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

1042 - Ellicott City: 5.6 TCR = 166% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1042 - Ellicott City safety composite

1042 - Ellicott City scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 37%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.3

2019→2024

1042 - Ellicott City injury rate improved

1042 - Ellicott City's TCR fell 5.3 from 6.8 in 2019 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 10.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=6.8 · 2021=3.4 · 2022=10.9 · 2023=5.8 · 2024=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Ellicott City, MD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 166% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #63/96
  • PHOTO Ross store 1261
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~279 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ross store 1261 (0.0 TCR gap)

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1042 - Ellicott City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1042 - Ellicott City averages 5.6 TCR (166% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

1042 - Ellicott City TCR series: 2019=6.8 · 2021=3.4 · 2022=10.9 · 2023=5.8 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 3.4

Where 1042 - Ellicott City falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #63 safest of 96 Discount Department Stores employers in Maryland.

1042 - Ellicott City (279 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 1042 - Ellicott City
1042 - Ellicott City (279 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

1042 - Ellicott City has more employees than the Discount Department Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2024 1.4 0.7 1 1 0
2023 5.8 5.0 4 4 0
2022 10.9 10.9 3 13 0
2021 3.4 2.7 4 1 0
2019 6.8 5.4 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · MD · Ellicott City

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 37 employers in Ellicott City, 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 Ross store 1261 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR dd's DISCOUNTS Store 5145 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1051 - Gandy 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1800 - Sioux City 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Location 30001 279 FTE
STATE-SIZE Barton Cotton Holdings, LLC 279 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6354-MD04 279 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maryland Distribution Center 278 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2412 364 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2412 343 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Lutheran Village at Miller's Grant 221 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ellicott City Healthcare Center 165 FTE
NAT-TCR City of Knoxville Inspections 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Masterpiece Flower Company LLC - Merchandising (MO) 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Fort Wayne IN FXFE-FWA 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Phoenixville 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0883 - Pasadena 279 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1293 - Costa Mesa 279 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0195 - Long Beach Bellflower 279 FTE
NAT-SIZE Henkel Bay Point 279 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, 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.