Refuse collection services · Maryland

Frederick 4428

Frederick, MD · ~79 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Frederick 4428 runs at 201% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Refuse collection services workplace, earning a grade F.

Frederick 4428: 5.2 TCR = 201% of Refuse collection services BLS 2.6 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Frederick 4428 safety composite

Frederick 4428 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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

−3.5

2016→2021

Frederick 4428 injury rate improved

Frederick 4428's TCR fell 3.5 from 3.5 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.5 · 2017=8.6 · 2018=8.9 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Frederick, MD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.2 · 201% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #15/33
  • PHOTO S03960 - WI Madison
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S03960 - WI Madison (0.0 TCR gap)

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Frederick 4428 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Frederick 4428 averages 5.2 TCR (201% of the Refuse collection services BLS benchmark).

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

Frederick 4428 TCR series: 2016=3.5 · 2017=8.6 · 2018=8.9 · 2021=0 · BLS 2.6

Where Frederick 4428 falls in its industry

2,322 Refuse collection services establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 33 Refuse collection services employers in Maryland.

Frederick 4428 (79 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Frederick 4428
Frederick 4428 (79 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Frederick 4428 has more employees than the Refuse collection services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 8.9 6.7 8 0 0
2017 8.6 7.4 7 0 1
2016 3.5 3.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · MD · Frederick

2,322 Refuse collection services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 267 employers in Frederick, 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 S03960 - WI Madison 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Liquid Waste Recycling Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR River Parish Disposal 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Borden Waste-Away Service Inc 5.2 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 MD-03 4,250 FTE
CITY-NEAR AstraZeneca Frederick Manufacturing Center 775 FTE
CITY-NEAR AstraZeneca Frederick Manufacturing 711 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thermo Fisher Scientific Frederick, MD (BID - Executive Way) 568 FTE
NAT-TCR Greenbough Health and Rehabilitation Center 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Bethlehem Haven 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Cutrale Citrus Leesburg 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Del Papa Distributing - COA 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sedano's Supermarket #33 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Odessa Operations 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cincinnati, OH HVAC 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE KHC 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: 2021, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.