Transportation · Maryland

ABF Freight 048

Elkridge, MD · ~91 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ABF Freight 048 runs at 403% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Transportation workplace, earning a grade F.

ABF Freight 048: 18.1 TCR = 403% of Transportation BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ABF Freight 048 safety composite

ABF Freight 048 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

ABF Freight 048: 16.3 → 17.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 26.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.76× in 2024

ABF Freight 048's TCR rose 1.5 from 16.3 in 2017 to 17.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 26.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Elkridge, MD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 18.1 · 403% of ind

  • DART 13.7 DART
  • RANK #41/41
  • PHOTO MVN
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 137 inj
  • SIZE ~91 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MVN (0.0 TCR gap)

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ABF Freight 048 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ABF Freight 048 averages 18.1 TCR (403% of the Transportation BLS benchmark).

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

ABF Freight 048 TCR series: 2017=16.3 · 2018=26 · 2019=21.3 · 2020=11.2 · 2021=9.3 · 2022=23 · 2023=20.2 · 2024=17.8 · BLS 4.5

Where ABF Freight 048 falls in its industry

3,020 Transportation establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #41 safest of 41 Transportation employers in Maryland.

ABF Freight 048 (91 employees, TCR 18.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate ABF Freight 048
ABF Freight 048 (91 employees, TCR 18.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

ABF Freight 048 has more employees than the Transportation median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 17.8 13.7 13 0 0
2023 20.2 13.1 20 0 0
2022 23.0 15.7 22 0 0
2021 9.3 8.1 8 0 0
2020 11.2 7.9 10 0 0
2019 21.3 16.0 16 0 0
2018 26.0 17.7 28 0 0
2017 16.3 12.2 20 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · MD · Elkridge

3,020 Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 90 employers in Elkridge, 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 MVN 18.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 002 ABF Freight 002 18.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Salem 029 18.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coke United_GA 18.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Standard Solar, Inc. 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harbor Roofing and Contracting, Inc. 2020 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Linthicum, 805 Pinnacle Drive 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE WASHINGTON DC 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bell Nursery - Store Employees 557 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - SMD1 424 FTE
CITY-NEAR Executive Maintenance, Inc. 420 FTE
CITY-NEAR Center for Social Change 419 FTE
NAT-TCR Vm International: 945 E Chrurch St. Riverside, Ca 92507 18.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Shiocton Cut Stock LLC 18.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Forestdale Park 18.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Stericycle - Concord,NC-4389 Republic 18.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE WVPA Headquarters 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amco American Roofing Co 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pratt (Target Container), Inc 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Deflecto Dover Plant 91 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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