Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers · Maryland

Coastal Sunbelt Produce

Laurel, MD · ~575 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Coastal Sunbelt Produce runs at 402% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Coastal Sunbelt Produce: 8.8 TCR = 402% of Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Coastal Sunbelt Produce safety composite

Coastal Sunbelt Produce scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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%).

TCR Δ

−8.3

2016→2024

Coastal Sunbelt Produce injury rate improved

Coastal Sunbelt Produce's TCR fell 8.3 from 12.1 in 2016 to 3.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 13.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=12.1 · 2017=11.3 · 2018=13.8 · 2019=10.5 · 2020=6.6 · 2021=9.7 · 2022=2.9 · 2024=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424480 · Laurel, MD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 402% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO Grasmick Produce Inc.
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 448 inj
  • SIZE ~575 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Grasmick Produce Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Coastal Sunbelt Produce in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Coastal Sunbelt Produce averages 8.8 TCR (402% of the Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Coastal Sunbelt Produce TCR series: 2016=12.1 · 2017=11.3 · 2018=13.8 · 2019=10.5 · 2020=6.6 · 2021=9.7 · 2022=2.9 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Coastal Sunbelt Produce falls in its industry

369 Fresh fruits, vegetables and b establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

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 5 Fresh fruits, vegetables and b employers in Maryland.

Coastal Sunbelt Produce (575 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Coastal Sunbelt Produce
Coastal Sunbelt Produce (575 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Coastal Sunbelt Produce has more employees than the Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries mer median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 3.9 2.8 21 1 0
2022 2.9 2.8 19 0 0
2021 9.7 9.7 44 0 0
2020 6.6 6.6 34 1 0
2019 10.5 9.4 76 0 0
2018 13.8 10.3 94 1 0
2017 11.3 9.9 78 0 0
2016 12.1 10.1 82 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424480 · MD · Laurel

369 Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 125 employers in Laurel, 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 Grasmick Produce Inc. 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR SiCar Farms .Ltd .Co 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CIBUS Fresh (Division of Piazza Produce, LLC) 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mr Greens Produce - Plant City 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Child and Family Services 575 FTE
STATE-SIZE PAAC IV - GSFC 574 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Sugar Refining - Baltimore 573 FTE
STATE-SIZE Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center Hospital 579 FTE
CITY-NEAR BURTONSVILLE (MDBUR) 2,341 FTE
CITY-NEAR MDBUR - BURTONSVILLE 2,339 FTE
CITY-NEAR WSSC Water 1,668 FTE
CITY-NEAR Beltsville (Laurel) 1,661 FTE
NAT-TCR Larry's Lumber, Inc. 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Five Star Residences of Fort Wayne 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Valencia Terrace 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Albertville Research Facility 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Procter & Gamble Manufacturing 575 FTE
NAT-SIZE mwh constructors 575 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marathon Electrical Contractors, LLC 575 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mondelez Global LLC 575 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.