Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers · Maryland

East MO - BETHESDA MD

Bethesda, MD · ~507 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

East MO - BETHESDA MD runs at 143% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

East MO - BETHESDA MD: 3.1 TCR = 143% of Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

East MO - BETHESDA MD safety composite

East MO - BETHESDA MD scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 45%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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%).

Rising injury rate

East MO - BETHESDA MD: 2.8 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 3.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.43× in 2017

East MO - BETHESDA MD's TCR rose 0.7 from 2.8 in 2016 to 3.5 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423710 · Bethesda, MD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.1 · 143% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #5/11
  • PHOTO Ace Hardware Retail …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~507 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ace Hardware Retail Support Center (Loxley) (0.0 TCR gap)

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East MO - BETHESDA MD in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows East MO - BETHESDA MD averages 3.1 TCR (143% of the Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

East MO - BETHESDA MD TCR series: 2016=2.8 · 2017=3.5 · BLS 2.2

Where East MO - BETHESDA MD falls in its industry

449 Hardware (except motor vehicle establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 11 Hardware (except motor vehicle employers in Maryland.

East MO - BETHESDA MD (507 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate East MO - BETHESDA MD
East MO - BETHESDA MD (507 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.9

East MO - BETHESDA MD has more employees than the Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2017 3.5 1.4 18 0 0
2016 2.8 1.0 13 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423710 · MD · Bethesda

449 Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 107 employers in Bethesda, 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 Ace Hardware Retail Support Center (Loxley) 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2807-107M 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Acme Portland 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rental AD Division - PLANO TX 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Poole & Kent Main Office 506 FTE
STATE-SIZE MD0288BC 506 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lord Baltimore Building 510 FTE
STATE-SIZE IKEA SSC / Call Center 510 FTE
CITY-NEAR Red Coats, Inc. 6,040 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vador Ventures Inc 5,569 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clark (Clark Construction, Clark Concrete,Clark Civil, Clark Foundations) 2,961 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clark Construction Group LLC 2,313 FTE
NAT-TCR US - Supply Chain : 0935 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR WI-Green Bay-Glory 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bodycote Thermal Processing Inc. - Morristown 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Northern Foreign Car Parts, Inc. (03809) 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tinton Falls (Njtin) 507 FTE
NAT-SIZE District 2 507 FTE
NAT-SIZE CC Lyndhurst Campus 507 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Langham Huntington, Pasadena 507 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: 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.