Agriculture research and development laboratories or services (except biotechnology research and development) · Maryland

Beltsville Agricultural Research Center

Beltsville, MD · ~609 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Beltsville Agricultural Research Center runs at 604% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Agriculture research and development laboratories or services (except biotechnology research and development) workplace, earning a grade F.

Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: 3.0 TCR = 604% of Agriculture research and development laboratories or services (except biotechnology research and development) BLS 0.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Beltsville Agricultural Research Center safety composite

Beltsville Agricultural Research Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.6

2017→2018

Beltsville Agricultural Research Center injury rate improved

Beltsville Agricultural Research Center's TCR fell 3.6 from 4.8 in 2017 to 1.2 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.8 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.8 · 2018=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541712 · Beltsville, MD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 3.0 · 604% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO UHH/HI Coop Studies …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~609 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: UHH/HI Coop Studies Unit(HCSU) (0.1 TCR gap)

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Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Beltsville Agricultural Research Center averages 3.0 TCR (604% of the Agriculture research and development laboratories or services (except biotechnology research and development) BLS benchmark).

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

Beltsville Agricultural Research Center TCR series: 2017=4.8 · 2018=1.2 · BLS 0.5

Where Beltsville Agricultural Research Center falls in its industry

319 Agriculture research and devel establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Agriculture research and devel employers in Maryland.

Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (609 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 159 employees and a TCR of 0.8 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Beltsville Agricultural Research Center
Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (609 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 159 employees and a TCR of 0.8

Beltsville Agricultural Research Center has more employees than the Agriculture research and development lab median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.8. 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
2018 1.2 1.0 6 0 0
2017 4.8 3.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541712 · MD · Beltsville

319 Agriculture research and development laboratories or services (except biotechnology research and development) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 97 employers in Beltsville, 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 UHH/HI Coop Studies Unit(HCSU) 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Newton Headquarters 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Test Site 400 @ Jackass Flats 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Millipore Sigma 54 Cherry Hill Drive Danvers 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - MDT2 609 FTE
STATE-SIZE Guy F Atkinson Construction LLC 610 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sentral Building Services, llc 602 FTE
STATE-SIZE 230387-BALT INC MAIL MD P&DC 619 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kaiser 1,670 FTE
CITY-NEAR W.E.Bowers 1,450 FTE
CITY-NEAR Manganaro Mid-Atlantic 920 FTE
CITY-NEAR Manganaro Midatlantic LLC 484 FTE
NAT-TCR Agricultural Construction 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hometown Grocery of Oneonta, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR NA-US-NY-Amsterdam-Sam Stratton Road 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern Collision 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sharp Coronado Hospital 609 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dynamic Aviation VBW 609 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jabil Inc. 609 FTE
NAT-SIZE McHenry 609 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: 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.