Spices and spice mix manufacturing · Maryland

Fuchs North America

Hampstead, MD · ~180 workers · 3 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

Fuchs North America runs at 74% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Spices and spice mix manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Fuchs North America: 3.0 TCR = 74% of Spices and spice mix manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fuchs North America safety composite

Fuchs North America scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 58% 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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

−1.8

2022→2024

Fuchs North America injury rate improved

Fuchs North America's TCR fell 1.8 from 3.4 in 2022 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=3.4 · 2023=4.1 · 2024=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311942 · Hampstead, MD AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 3.0 · 74% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #6/13
  • PHOTO Fiesta Menchaca
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~180 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fiesta Menchaca (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fuchs North America in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fuchs North America averages 3.0 TCR (74% of the Spices and spice mix manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Fuchs North America TCR series: 2022=3.4 · 2023=4.1 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 4.1

Where Fuchs North America falls in its industry

200 Spices and spice mix manufactu establishments

Safer than 56% 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 #6 safest of 13 Spices and spice mix manufactu employers in Maryland.

Fuchs North America (180 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 Fuchs North America
Fuchs North America (180 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Fuchs North America has more employees than the Spices and spice mix manufacturing 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
2024 1.6 1.6 3 0 0
2023 4.1 3.6 8 0 0
2022 3.4 0.5 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311942 · MD · Hampstead

200 Spices and spice mix manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 20 employers in Hampstead, 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 Fiesta Menchaca 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mafco Worldwide LLC 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flavor and Fragrance Specialties 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Yakima Chief Hops 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE ICON Exterior Building Solutions, L.P. 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE WINDSOR ELECTRIC CO INC 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Avenue Division 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1840 180 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2850 348 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2850 339 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hampstead 253 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hampstead Powdered Metal Plant 113 FTE
NAT-TCR Touchpoints Therapy LLC 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Teel Plastics-Teel Court 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Focus Fire Protection, LLC 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR The JM Smucker Co 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE SHV 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1208 Elmont 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon Retail LLC - MAG1 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Miinc, L.P. 180 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: 2024, 2023, 2022. 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.