Retail · Maryland

166 Gaithersburg

Gaithersburg, MD · ~52 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

166 Gaithersburg runs at 357% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Retail workplace, earning a grade F.

166 Gaithersburg: 12.2 TCR = 357% of Retail BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

166 Gaithersburg safety composite

166 Gaithersburg 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.48 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

166 Gaithersburg: 6.6 → 14.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 23.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.94× in 2024

166 Gaithersburg's TCR rose 7.8 from 6.6 in 2017 to 14.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 23.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 442210 · Gaithersburg, MD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.2 · 357% of ind

  • DART 11.5 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO 125 Columbus
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 125 Columbus (0.0 TCR gap)

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166 Gaithersburg in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 166 Gaithersburg averages 12.2 TCR (357% of the Retail BLS benchmark).

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

166 Gaithersburg TCR series: 2017=6.6 · 2018=7.7 · 2019=14.4 · 2020=7.7 · 2021=18 · 2022=23.6 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=14.3 · BLS 3.4

Where 166 Gaithersburg falls in its industry

345 Retail establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Retail employers in Maryland.

166 Gaithersburg (52 employees, TCR 12.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 9.8 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 166 Gaithersburg
166 Gaithersburg (52 employees, TCR 12.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 9.8

166 Gaithersburg has more employees than the Retail median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.8. 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 14.3 11.5 5 0 0
2023 4.8 4.8 2 0 0
2022 23.6 16.3 13 0 0
2021 18.0 2.6 7 0 0
2020 7.7 7.7 3 0 0
2019 14.4 14.4 6 0 0
2018 7.7 0.0 3 0 0
2017 6.6 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

442210 · MD · Gaithersburg

345 Retail employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 202 employers in Gaithersburg, 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 125 Columbus 12.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 257 Bohemia 12.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 134 Pembroke Pines 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 281 Fern Park 12.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dan Schantz Greenhouse (Rising Sun, MD) 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main Office 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Robert W Sheckles, Inc. 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Quantum Controls Inc 52 FTE
CITY-NEAR AstraZeneca Gaithersburg Campus 4,117 FTE
CITY-NEAR MDGAI - GAITHERSBURG HUB 794 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adventist Healthcare Support Center to SGMC 764 FTE
CITY-NEAR MDGAI - GAITHERSBURG-PACKAGE CENTER 759 FTE
NAT-TCR Madison Metal Processing 12.2 TCR
NAT-TCR North Valley Mechanical, Inc 12.2 TCR
NAT-TCR FWA 12.2 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Luke's Regional Medical Center Central Laundry Only 12.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 191 Port St. Lucie 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE 195 St. Petersburg 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE 199 Tukwila 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE 123 Norco 52 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.