Retail Supermarkets · Maryland

Germantown

Germantown, MD · ~208 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Germantown runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Retail Supermarkets workplace, earning a grade B.

Germantown: 2.2 TCR = 65% of Retail Supermarkets BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Germantown safety composite

Germantown scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Germantown: 0.8 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.92× in 2024

Germantown's TCR rose 2.1 from 0.8 in 2016 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Germantown, MD AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 65% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #92/806
  • PHOTO Giant Eagle #0465
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~208 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Giant Eagle #0465 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Germantown in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Germantown averages 2.2 TCR (65% of the Retail Supermarkets BLS benchmark).

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

Germantown TCR series: 2016=0.8 · 2017=1.5 · 2021=0 · 2023=6 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 3.4

Where Germantown falls in its industry

30,654 Retail Supermarkets establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #92 safest of 806 Retail Supermarkets employers in Maryland.

Germantown (208 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Germantown
Germantown (208 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Germantown has more employees than the Retail Supermarkets median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 2.9 2.0 7 0 0
2023 6.0 5.5 11 3 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 1.5 0.0 2 0 0
2016 0.8 0.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MD · Germantown

30,654 Retail Supermarkets employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 55 employers in Germantown, 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 Giant Eagle #0465 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0086 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0604 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1403 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ferguson Trenching Company Inc 208 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1541 - Pikesville 208 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1007 - Laurel 208 FTE
STATE-SIZE GOODWILL MENNONITE HOME 208 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hughes Network Systems, LLC. 1,115 FTE
CITY-NEAR Holy Cross Hospital-Germantown 813 FTE
CITY-NEAR Holy Cross Germantown Hospital-HCH-MD 775 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2357 520 FTE
NAT-TCR Clean Earth of North Jersey, Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR STR0428 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Capstone Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Austin TX Showroom 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE NB Farms, Inc 208 FTE
NAT-SIZE ShopRite of Vails Gate 208 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carlsbad Office 208 FTE
NAT-SIZE Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Richardson 208 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, 2021, 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.