Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers · Maryland

DS Pipe and Steel

Baltimore, MD · ~134 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DS Pipe and Steel runs at 276% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

DS Pipe and Steel: 6.1 TCR = 276% of Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DS Pipe and Steel safety composite

DS Pipe and Steel scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

−2.8

2021→2024

DS Pipe and Steel injury rate improved

DS Pipe and Steel's TCR fell 2.8 from 8.5 in 2021 to 5.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=8.5 · 2022=6.6 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=5.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Baltimore, MD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.1 · 276% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO Boyd Metals of Fort …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~134 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Boyd Metals of Fort Smith, Arkansas (0.0 TCR gap)

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DS Pipe and Steel in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DS Pipe and Steel averages 6.1 TCR (276% of the Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

DS Pipe and Steel TCR series: 2021=8.5 · 2022=6.6 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=5.7 · BLS 2.2

Where DS Pipe and Steel falls in its industry

1,299 Pipe, metal, merchant wholesal establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

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 Pipe, metal, merchant wholesal employers in Maryland.

DS Pipe and Steel (134 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate DS Pipe and Steel
DS Pipe and Steel (134 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

DS Pipe and Steel has more employees than the Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 5.7 4.0 9 1 0
2023 3.5 3.5 5 0 0
2022 6.6 3.6 9 0 0
2021 8.5 6.0 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · MD · Baltimore

1,299 Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers 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 Boyd Metals of Fort Smith, Arkansas 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Target Steel GB 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ryerson Lancaster 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jemison Metals - Sumter 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Chesapeake Contracting Group 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE D32 Washington DC EI 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE Miscellaneous Metals, Inc. 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE BAE Systems I&S - Lexington Park 134 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 Coastal Greenhouses, LLC -NY 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Piedmont Eastside Medical Center 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Mercury Logistics LLC 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Public Works Fleet Services Division 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Legacy House of Spanish Fork 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE James Austin Company 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mojave Unified School District 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Richwood Meat Company 1 2021 134 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. 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.