General-line groceries merchant wholesalers · Maryland

Ferraro Foods of Maryland, LLC

Aberdeen, MD · ~86 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ferraro Foods of Maryland, LLC runs at 304% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General-line groceries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Ferraro Foods of Maryland, LLC: 6.7 TCR = 304% of General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ferraro Foods of Maryland, LLC safety composite

Ferraro Foods of Maryland, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Ferraro Foods of Maryland, LLC: 6.6 → 7.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 7.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2021

Ferraro Foods of Maryland, LLC's TCR rose 1.2 from 6.6 in 2019 to 7.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Aberdeen, MD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 304% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #18/33
  • PHOTO Eby-Brown Knightdale
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Eby-Brown Knightdale (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ferraro Foods of Maryland, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ferraro Foods of Maryland, LLC averages 6.7 TCR (304% of the General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Ferraro Foods of Maryland, LLC TCR series: 2019=6.6 · 2020=5.6 · 2021=7.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Ferraro Foods of Maryland, LLC falls in its industry

1,651 General-line groceries merchan establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 33 General-line groceries merchan employers in Maryland.

Ferraro Foods of Maryland, LLC (86 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ferraro Foods of Maryland, LLC
Ferraro Foods of Maryland, LLC (86 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Ferraro Foods of Maryland, LLC has fewer employees than the General-line groceries merchant wholesal median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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
2021 7.8 6.7 7 0 0
2020 5.6 3.7 3 0 0
2019 6.6 6.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · MD · Aberdeen

1,651 General-line groceries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 60 employers in Aberdeen, 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 Eby-Brown Knightdale 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR VMC - FORT SCOTT 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Customized - NJ - 0809 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Restaurant Depot 814 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Communications Electronics-Timonium 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Baltimore 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE BELTSVILLE DC EmpWorkCtrCd 30000804 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2511 WEST FREDERICK 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - MTN2 903 FTE
CITY-NEAR ABERDEEN LOCATION 863 FTE
CITY-NEAR ABERDEEN PLANT 861 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rite Aid Distribution 855 FTE
NAT-TCR Juniper 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Las Vegas TJ Maxx Distribution Center 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Monroe Bartels Inc dba MBI Construction Inc 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Palo Alto Medical Foundation (378-10300) 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Baxter Orting, WA 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE HH-Queens CSC 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Henkels & McCoy, Inc. - Northhampton, PA 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE KP-Frazer CSC 86 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.