Employer · Maryland

Elite Spice: Waterloo

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

F
Failing Safety Record
11.0
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Elite Spice: Waterloo runs at 267% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

Elite Spice: Waterloo: 11.0 TCR = 267% of industry BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Elite Spice: Waterloo safety composite

Elite Spice: Waterloo scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

−10.1

2017→2019

Elite Spice: Waterloo injury rate improved

Elite Spice: Waterloo's TCR fell 10.1 from 16.3 in 2017 to 6.2 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 16.3 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=16.3 · 2018=10.3 · 2019=6.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311942 · Jessup, MD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.0 · 267% of ind

  • DART 6.2 DART
  • RANK #13/13
  • PHOTO Kerry-Greenville
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kerry-Greenville (0.1 TCR gap)

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Elite Spice: Waterloo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Elite Spice: Waterloo averages 11.0 TCR (267% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Elite Spice: Waterloo TCR series: 2017=16.3 · 2018=10.3 · 2019=6.2 · BLS 4.1

Where Elite Spice: Waterloo falls in its industry

200 industry establishments

Safer than 3% 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 #13 safest of 13 industry employers in Maryland.

Elite Spice: Waterloo (56 employees, TCR 11.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 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 Elite Spice: Waterloo
Elite Spice: Waterloo (56 employees, TCR 11.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Elite Spice: Waterloo has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher 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
2019 6.2 6.2 4 0 0
2018 10.3 10.3 4 0 0
2017 16.3 16.3 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311942 · MD · Jessup

200 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 122 employers in Jessup, 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 Kerry-Greenville 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shank's Extracts, LLC 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR BDS Natural Products 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fargo Plant 9.7 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 Lancaster Foods 785 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jessup Correctional Institution 530 FTE
CITY-NEAR RNDC Jessup 497 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sysco Baltimore, LLC 491 FTE
NAT-TCR Tymetal Corp. NY Plant 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mountain View Nursing & Rehab 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Zoresco Equipment Company 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Franklin Park Hub (Ilfra) 11.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Steck Wholesale Foods, Inc. 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Palm Springs (PS1) 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Edgewater Care Center 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE QSI Washington 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.