Other Construction Material Merchant Wholesalers · Maryland

542 - Gaithersburg-Int Branch

Gaithersburg, MD · ~25 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

542 - Gaithersburg-Int Branch runs at 285% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Other Construction Material Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

542 - Gaithersburg-Int Branch: 6.3 TCR = 285% of Other Construction Material Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

542 - Gaithersburg-Int Branch safety composite

542 - Gaithersburg-Int Branch scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−3.3

2017→2020

542 - Gaithersburg-Int Branch injury rate improved

542 - Gaithersburg-Int Branch's TCR fell 3.3 from 7.5 in 2017 to 4.2 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.5 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.5 · 2018=7.2 · 2020=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423390 · Gaithersburg, MD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.3 · 285% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO BUILDERS FENCE COMPA…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BUILDERS FENCE COMPANY, INC. FONTANA (0.0 TCR gap)

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542 - Gaithersburg-Int Branch in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 542 - Gaithersburg-Int Branch averages 6.3 TCR (285% of the Other Construction Material Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

542 - Gaithersburg-Int Branch TCR series: 2017=7.5 · 2018=7.2 · 2020=4.2 · BLS 2.2

Where 542 - Gaithersburg-Int Branch falls in its industry

168 Other Construction Material Me establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Other Construction Material Me employers in Maryland.

542 - Gaithersburg-Int Branch (25 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 542 - Gaithersburg-Int Branch
542 - Gaithersburg-Int Branch (25 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.5

542 - Gaithersburg-Int Branch has fewer employees than the Other Construction Material Merchant Who median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2020 4.2 4.2 1 0 0
2018 7.2 7.2 2 0 0
2017 7.5 7.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423390 · MD · Gaithersburg

168 Other Construction Material Merchant Wholesalers 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 BUILDERS FENCE COMPANY, INC. FONTANA 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Titan Distribution LLC 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 560 - JACKSONVILLE-INT BRANCH 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 588 - HONOLULU-INT BRANCH 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Solar Gaines, LLC 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Annex Building 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Office 70 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2020149 - Yel02 Lot 8 25 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 Bronx Zoo 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hydraulics- Pueblo 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR OBrien Steel Service 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR DW Zinser Company, Inc. 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 442 - Charlotte Branch - Rsg 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE 582 - Sacramento-Int Branch 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roadrunner Transportation Services - Cincinnati 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lancaster Machine & Tool, Inc. 25 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: 2020, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.