Overhead door, residential-type, installation · Maryland

First Choice Garage Doors Inc

Easton, MD · ~40 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Choice Garage Doors Inc runs at 308% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Overhead door, residential-type, installation workplace, earning a grade F.

First Choice Garage Doors Inc: 8.6 TCR = 308% of Overhead door, residential-type, installation BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Choice Garage Doors Inc safety composite

First Choice Garage Doors Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 52% 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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%).

TCR Δ

−13.3

2023→2024

First Choice Garage Doors Inc injury rate improved

First Choice Garage Doors Inc's TCR fell 13.3 from 15.2 in 2023 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 15.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=15.2 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238350 · Easton, MD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 308% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK P20
  • PHOTO New Project Llc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: New Project Llc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Choice Garage Doors Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Choice Garage Doors Inc averages 8.6 TCR (308% of the Overhead door, residential-type, installation BLS benchmark).

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

First Choice Garage Doors Inc TCR series: 2023=15.2 · 2024=2 · BLS 2.8

Where First Choice Garage Doors Inc falls in its industry

367 Overhead door, residential-typ establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
First Choice Garage Doors Inc (40 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0100200300 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate First Choice Garage Doors Inc
First Choice Garage Doors Inc (40 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7

First Choice Garage Doors Inc has fewer employees than the Overhead door, residential-type, install median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2023 15.2 5.1 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238350 · MD · Easton

367 Overhead door, residential-type, installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 72 employers in Easton, 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 New Project Llc. 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Palm Desert Door & Hardware 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northside Construction LLC 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Closets By Design 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Chalk Point Generating Station 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Revolution Solar 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE CFM/Severn Associates JV 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hamilton Pacific Chamberlain, LLC 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Maryland Shore Medical Center at Easton 1,182 FTE
CITY-NEAR ACTS Retirement Life Communities - Bayleigh Chase 285 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aphena Pharma Solutions - Industrial Park Road 255 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shore Bancshares Inc 212 FTE
NAT-TCR BENICIA 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Modern Door Corp 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR City Line Distributors 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pedretti Ranches, Inc. 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Barb City Manor, Inc. 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stoneham 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bauerschmidt & Sons, Inc. 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Farmers' Electric Cooperative, Inc. 40 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. 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.