Alfalfa sprout farming, grown under cover · Maryland

ForwardGro, LLC

Lothian, MD · ~36 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ForwardGro, LLC runs at 235% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Alfalfa sprout farming, grown under cover workplace, earning a grade F.

ForwardGro, LLC: 10.6 TCR = 235% of Alfalfa sprout farming, grown under cover BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ForwardGro, LLC safety composite

ForwardGro, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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%).

ForwardGro, LLC held a steady TCR band

ForwardGro, LLC's TCR held near 0.1 from 9.4 in 2018 to 9.3 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 12.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=9.4 · 2019=12.9 · 2020=9.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111419 · Lothian, MD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.6 · 235% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/8
  • PHOTO Los Suenos
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Los Suenos (0.1 TCR gap)

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ForwardGro, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ForwardGro, LLC averages 10.6 TCR (235% of the Alfalfa sprout farming, grown under cover BLS benchmark).

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

ForwardGro, LLC TCR series: 2018=9.4 · 2019=12.9 · 2020=9.3 · BLS 4.5

Where ForwardGro, LLC falls in its industry

251 Alfalfa sprout farming, grown establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

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 8 Alfalfa sprout farming, grown employers in Maryland.

ForwardGro, LLC (36 employees, TCR 10.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate ForwardGro, LLC
ForwardGro, LLC (36 employees, TCR 10.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.9

ForwardGro, LLC has fewer employees than the Alfalfa sprout farming, grown under cove median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 9.3 0.0 3 0 0
2019 12.9 0.0 4 0 0
2018 9.4 3.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111419 · MD · Lothian

251 Alfalfa sprout farming, grown under cover employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 7 employers in Lothian, 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 Los Suenos 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Denver, CO Franklin Facility 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wellness Connection of Maine Auburn 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Franklin Labs D/B/A Trulieve 10.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE R.W. Sauder Inc. 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gibraltar Construction Co., Inc. 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE BOB BREEDING GENERAL CONTRACTORS, LLC 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water Savers 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Am Van Inc T/a All American Ambulance and Transport 291 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lothian, MD 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tri-Phase Services Inc. 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tractor Supply Company Store 1815 23 FTE
NAT-TCR Cl-3 Opened 10/22/13 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR South Lyon Senior Care and Rehabilitation Center 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 212 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR CLR Healthcare Operations LLC 10.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Butler County Rural Electric Cooperative 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Dodge Center 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE UNIT520 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jan-Care of South East 36 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, 2018. 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.