Beer and Ale Merchant Wholesalers · Maryland

Frederick - MD

Frederick, MD · ~29 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Frederick - MD runs at 296% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Beer and Ale Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Frederick - MD: 6.5 TCR = 296% of Beer and Ale Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Frederick - MD safety composite

Frederick - MD scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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)
D 6.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

Frederick - MD: 4.1 → 4.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.73× in 2020

Frederick - MD's TCR rose 0.6 from 4.1 in 2017 to 4.7 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424810 · Frederick, MD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.5 · 296% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #4/6
  • PHOTO Andrews Distributing…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Andrews Distributing Company - Ennis (0.0 TCR gap)

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Frederick - MD in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Frederick - MD averages 6.5 TCR (296% of the Beer and Ale Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Frederick - MD TCR series: 2017=4.1 · 2018=8.7 · 2019=8.5 · 2020=4.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Frederick - MD falls in its industry

664 Beer and Ale Merchant Wholesal establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 6 Beer and Ale Merchant Wholesal employers in Maryland.

Frederick - MD (29 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Frederick - MD
Frederick - MD (29 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4

Frederick - MD has fewer employees than the Beer and Ale Merchant Wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.4. 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 4.7 4.7 1 0 0
2019 8.5 8.5 2 0 0
2018 8.7 0.0 2 0 0
2017 4.1 4.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424810 · MD · Frederick

664 Beer and Ale Merchant Wholesalers 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 Andrews Distributing Company - Ennis 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fechtel Beverage & Sales, Inc. 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Beverage Sales 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clark Distributing Co., Inc. 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fort Smallwood 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Frederick Division 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE WGL MD - Rockville 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE IPS - Integrated Project Services, LLC - Germantown 29 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 Dedicated - Family Dollar Duncan 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Sxb 52 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Village Works 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1572 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Boyer's Food Markets -Corporate 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE O&M Atlantis 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE DI - Army CLS Dothan AL 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE DI - RASM-W Ft Bliss 29 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, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.