Discount Department Stores · Maryland

1137 - Frederick

Frederick, MD · ~260 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

1137 - Frederick runs at 134% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

1137 - Frederick: 4.5 TCR = 134% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1137 - Frederick safety composite

1137 - Frederick scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 49% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 0%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 0% 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

1137 - Frederick: 0.9 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 10.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.86× in 2024

1137 - Frederick's TCR rose 3.0 from 0.9 in 2019 to 3.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 10.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Frederick, MD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 134% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #56/96
  • PHOTO Unit #2908
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~260 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Unit #2908 (0.0 TCR gap)

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1137 - Frederick in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1137 - Frederick averages 4.5 TCR (134% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

1137 - Frederick TCR series: 2019=0.9 · 2021=10.1 · 2022=7.1 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 3.4

Where 1137 - Frederick falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 49% 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 #56 safest of 96 Discount Department Stores employers in Maryland.

1137 - Frederick (260 employees, TCR 4.5) 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 1137 - Frederick
1137 - Frederick (260 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

1137 - Frederick 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 3.9 3.9 5 0 0
2023 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2022 7.1 7.1 0 9 0
2021 10.1 5.4 4 9 1
2019 0.9 0.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · MD · Frederick

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 267 employers in Frederick, 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 Unit #2908 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 833 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR DDs DISCOUNTS Store 5288 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR dd's DISCOUNTS Store 5181 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE DPL- Bay Regional Office 260 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mid Atlantic Baking Co., LLC 260 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6340-CAPITALTRISTATE-MD20772-KUPP 261 FTE
STATE-SIZE Towson Town Center 069 259 FTE
CITY-NEAR MD-03 4,250 FTE
CITY-NEAR AstraZeneca Frederick Manufacturing Center 775 FTE
CITY-NEAR AstraZeneca Frederick Manufacturing 711 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thermo Fisher Scientific Frederick, MD (BID - Executive Way) 568 FTE
NAT-TCR Warmkraft, Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR SB Houston 14 LLC 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Blackburn's Physicians Pharmacy Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Scad Byte Cafe 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1757 - Overland Park 260 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1762 - Lafayette 260 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2210 - Boynton Beach SE 260 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2495 - Pflugerville 260 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.