Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers · Maryland

Forman Equipment

Laurel, MD · ~43 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Forman Equipment runs at 184% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Forman Equipment: 4.0 TCR = 184% of Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Forman Equipment safety composite

Forman Equipment scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−8.1

2019→2020

Forman Equipment injury rate improved

Forman Equipment's TCR fell 8.1 from 8.1 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=8.1 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424130 · Laurel, MD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 184% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/8
  • PHOTO APT-Chattanooga
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: APT-Chattanooga (0.0 TCR gap)

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Forman Equipment in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Forman Equipment averages 4.0 TCR (184% of the Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Forman Equipment TCR series: 2019=8.1 · 2020=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Forman Equipment falls in its industry

290 Bags, paper and disposable pla establishments

Safer than 33% 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 #6 safest of 8 Bags, paper and disposable pla employers in Maryland.

Forman Equipment (43 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Forman Equipment
Forman Equipment (43 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Forman Equipment has fewer employees than the Bags, paper and disposable plastics, mer 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 8.1 8.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424130 · MD · Laurel

290 Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 125 employers in Laurel, 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 APT-Chattanooga 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bunzl York 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Victory Packaging Columbus 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Riverside Paper Co., Inc. Miami 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beltsville Warehouse 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE CBG 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Banneker Ventures 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE East Coast Building Services LLC 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR BURTONSVILLE (MDBUR) 2,341 FTE
CITY-NEAR MDBUR - BURTONSVILLE 2,339 FTE
CITY-NEAR WSSC Water 1,668 FTE
CITY-NEAR Beltsville (Laurel) 1,661 FTE
NAT-TCR Best Western Plus Dubuque Hotel & Conference Center 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Wfl Sarasota 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Klaussner Plant 20 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Industries- Fesco/SE Division 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE San Antonio TX 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Florence (BP) 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Salt Lake City (BP) 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Specialty Surgical Center 43 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: 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.