Marine Cargo Handling · Maryland

Ceres Baltimore

Baltimore, MD · ~361 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ceres Baltimore runs at 123% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Marine Cargo Handling workplace, earning a grade D.

Ceres Baltimore: 5.5 TCR = 123% of Marine Cargo Handling BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ceres Baltimore safety composite

Ceres Baltimore scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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)
D 5.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Ceres Baltimore: 4.8 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2024

Ceres Baltimore's TCR rose 2.7 from 4.8 in 2016 to 7.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488320 · Baltimore, MD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 123% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #6/17
  • PHOTO Ceres Hampton Roads
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 78 inj
  • SIZE ~361 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ceres Hampton Roads (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ceres Baltimore in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ceres Baltimore averages 5.5 TCR (123% of the Marine Cargo Handling BLS benchmark).

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

Ceres Baltimore TCR series: 2016=4.8 · 2018=5.1 · 2019=5.1 · 2021=5.5 · 2022=7.4 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=7.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Ceres Baltimore falls in its industry

391 Marine Cargo Handling establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 17 Marine Cargo Handling employers in Maryland.

Ceres Baltimore (361 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ceres Baltimore
Ceres Baltimore (361 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Ceres Baltimore has more employees than the Marine Cargo Handling median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2024 7.5 5.5 15 0 0
2023 3.2 1.6 8 0 0
2022 7.4 5.0 15 0 0
2021 5.5 3.0 11 0 0
2019 5.1 3.0 10 0 0
2018 5.1 3.0 10 0 0
2016 4.8 4.8 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488320 · MD · Baltimore

391 Marine Cargo Handling 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 Ceres Hampton Roads 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Transportation Service, Inc 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greenwich Terminals LLC 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Murphy Marine Services 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1124 - WHEATON MD WHSE 361 FTE
STATE-SIZE Montevideo 360 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smiths Detection Edgewood 363 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crofton 363 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 Taracon Logistics 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Roanoke 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Sun Terrace Prosser 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR City of St. Anthony Fire Department 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Acuity Specialty Hospital - Ohio Valley, L.P. (d/b/a/ Select Specialty Hospital - Weirton) 361 FTE
NAT-SIZE BSWQA Care Management 361 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Grand Rehabilitation and Nursing at Utica 361 FTE
NAT-SIZE Foodservice Shawano - 0564 361 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, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.