Nonwoven fabrics manufacturing · Maryland

Blind Industries - Cumberland

Cumberland, MD · ~56 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blind Industries - Cumberland runs at 41% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Nonwoven fabrics manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Blind Industries - Cumberland: 1.4 TCR = 41% of Nonwoven fabrics manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blind Industries - Cumberland safety composite

Blind Industries - Cumberland scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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).

C

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Blind Industries - Cumberland: 0.0 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 4.1 TCR · DART/TCR 3× in 2021

Blind Industries - Cumberland's TCR rose 4.1 from 0.0 in 2019 to 4.1 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313230 · Cumberland, MD AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 41% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #1/4
  • PHOTO Fitesa
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fitesa (0.0 TCR gap)

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Blind Industries - Cumberland in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blind Industries - Cumberland averages 1.4 TCR (41% of the Nonwoven fabrics manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Blind Industries - Cumberland TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=4.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Blind Industries - Cumberland falls in its industry

191 Nonwoven fabrics manufacturing establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 4 Nonwoven fabrics manufacturing employers in Maryland.

Blind Industries - Cumberland (56 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Blind Industries - Cumberland
Blind Industries - Cumberland (56 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Blind Industries - Cumberland has fewer employees than the Nonwoven fabrics manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2021 4.1 4.1 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313230 · MD · Cumberland

191 Nonwoven fabrics manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 58 employers in Cumberland, 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 Fitesa 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR VFT Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Strait Flex 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Foss Performance Materials LLC 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Empower Energies LLC 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE WMS 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mid Atlantic Contracting 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Walls & Ceilings, Inc. 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Western Maryland 1,984 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hunter Douglas Fabrication 729 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Woodmark Corp. 563 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Woodmark Corporation - Allegany Plant 537 FTE
NAT-TCR Tri Pointe Homes, Holdings 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Photon Dynamics Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Office 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Metropolis 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Straumann Arlington 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE ONT Ontario HDL 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Enclaves 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blackhawk Corrugated Carol Stream Il 56 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.