Advertising material preparation services for mailing or other direct distribution · Maryland

Barton Cotton Holdings, LLC

Baltimore, MD · ~279 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Barton Cotton Holdings, LLC runs at 148% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Advertising material preparation services for mailing or other direct distribution workplace, earning a grade D.

Barton Cotton Holdings, LLC: 0.7 TCR = 148% of Advertising material preparation services for mailing or other direct distribution BLS 0.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Barton Cotton Holdings, LLC safety composite

Barton Cotton Holdings, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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

Barton Cotton Holdings, LLC: 0.0 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Barton Cotton Holdings, LLC's TCR rose 2.5 from 0.0 in 2016 to 2.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541860 · Baltimore, MD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 0.7 · 148% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P92
  • PHOTO Valassis Direct Mail…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 38 inj
  • SIZE ~279 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Valassis Direct Mail, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Barton Cotton Holdings, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Barton Cotton Holdings, LLC averages 0.7 TCR (148% of the Advertising material preparation services for mailing or other direct distribution BLS benchmark).

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

Barton Cotton Holdings, LLC TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2019=0.1 · 2020=0 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 0.5

Where Barton Cotton Holdings, LLC falls in its industry

64 Advertising material preparati establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Barton Cotton Holdings, LLC (279 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0200400600800 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Barton Cotton Holdings, LLC
Barton Cotton Holdings, LLC (279 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Barton Cotton Holdings, LLC has more employees than the Advertising material preparation service median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 2.6 0.0 4 0 0
2023 1.6 0.4 4 0 0
2022 0.9 0.9 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 2 0 0
2019 0.1 0.1 11 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 7 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541860 · MD · Baltimore

64 Advertising material preparation services for mailing or other direct distribution employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 1,031 employers in Baltimore, 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 Valassis Direct Mail, Inc. 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Salem One -Kernersville 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valassis Pittsburgh 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Apollo Mailing Group, LLC 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1042 - Ellicott City 279 FTE
STATE-SIZE Location 30001 279 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6354-MD04 279 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maryland Distribution Center 278 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johns Hopkins Hospital 12,523 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Maryland Medical Center 7,980 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sinai Hospital of Baltimore 7,770 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGMS-T340 6,180 FTE
NAT-TCR Pahlisch Homes Inc. 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Branch 4396 - Southfield,MI 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR CCL Label 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Chandler's Sand & Gravel, LLC. 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lady Lake Specialty Care 279 FTE
NAT-SIZE Priority Toyota Chesapeake 279 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metalsa Roanoke Inc 279 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lyon Shipyard LLC 279 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, 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.