Flavor extracts (except coffee) manufacturing · Maryland

Flavor and Fragrance Specialties

Essex, MD · ~79 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Flavor and Fragrance Specialties runs at 74% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Flavor extracts (except coffee) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Flavor and Fragrance Specialties: 3.0 TCR = 74% of Flavor extracts (except coffee) manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Flavor and Fragrance Specialties safety composite

Flavor and Fragrance Specialties scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% 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

Flavor and Fragrance Specialties: 2.4 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Flavor and Fragrance Specialties's TCR rose 1.3 from 2.4 in 2022 to 3.7 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311942 · Essex, MD AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.0 · 74% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/13
  • PHOTO Fuchs North America
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fuchs North America (0.0 TCR gap)

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Flavor and Fragrance Specialties in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Flavor and Fragrance Specialties averages 3.0 TCR (74% of the Flavor extracts (except coffee) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Flavor and Fragrance Specialties TCR series: 2022=2.4 · 2023=3.7 · BLS 4.1

Where Flavor and Fragrance Specialties falls in its industry

200 Flavor extracts (except coffee establishments

Safer than 55% 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 #7 safest of 13 Flavor extracts (except coffee employers in Maryland.

Flavor and Fragrance Specialties (79 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 Flavor and Fragrance Specialties
Flavor and Fragrance Specialties (79 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Flavor and Fragrance Specialties has fewer employees than the Flavor extracts (except coffee) manufact median and a lower 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
2023 3.7 0.0 3 0 0
2022 2.4 2.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311942 · MD · Essex

200 Flavor extracts (except coffee) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 19 employers in Essex, 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 Fuchs North America 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fiesta Menchaca 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mafco Worldwide LLC 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Yakima Chief Hops 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Desbuild Incorporated 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Towson Mechanical, Inc. 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE NA-US-MD-Hunt Valley-Clubhouse Road 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ecotone, LLC 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DBA3 733 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - DBA3 195 FTE
CITY-NEAR 01653 - STORE # 1653 ESSEX 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flavor & Fragrance Specialties 85 FTE
NAT-TCR Plant 11/12 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Adapt-A-Pak 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Installation Specialists, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Huls Bros Trucking, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Thorlabs 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Headquarters 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE J.P. Phillips, Inc. 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Linden House LLC 79 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.