Discount Department Stores · Maryland

1142 - Towson

Towson, MD · ~310 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1142 - Towson runs at 169% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

1142 - Towson: 5.7 TCR = 169% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1142 - Towson safety composite

1142 - Towson scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

1142 - Towson: 2.8 → 6.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 14.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.93× in 2024

1142 - Towson's TCR rose 3.3 from 2.8 in 2019 to 6.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 14.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 169% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #66/96
  • PHOTO 2283 - Longview
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~310 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2283 - Longview (0.0 TCR gap)

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1142 - Towson in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1142 - Towson averages 5.7 TCR (169% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

1142 - Towson TCR series: 2019=2.8 · 2021=1.3 · 2022=14.8 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=6.1 · BLS 3.4

Where 1142 - Towson falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 36% 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 #66 safest of 96 Discount Department Stores employers in Maryland.

1142 - Towson (310 employees, TCR 5.7) 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 1142 - Towson
1142 - Towson (310 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

1142 - Towson 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 6.1 5.3 8 0 0
2023 3.8 3.8 4 1 0
2022 14.8 14.8 5 16 0
2021 1.3 0.6 2 0 0
2019 2.8 1.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · MD · Towson

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 91 employers in Towson, 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 2283 - Longview 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 116 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2011 - Asheville South 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2596 - King of Prussia 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2931 310 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 3843 310 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2790 310 FTE
STATE-SIZE Residential One LLC 310 FTE
CITY-NEAR Greater Baltimore Medical Center 4,221 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center 1,916 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Group 467 FTE
CITY-NEAR Towson (Remote Sales & MKT) FS (GTS) 462 FTE
NAT-TCR 2283 - Longview 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR NA-US-CA-Irvine-Alton 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Supermercados Morelos - La Union 4 LLC 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 000047-Indianapolis in 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Champion Brands Inc 310 FTE
NAT-SIZE LDRM Visa Support Services 310 FTE
NAT-SIZE AdventHealth Ottawa 310 FTE
NAT-SIZE Houston Ballet Foundation 310 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.