Employer · Maryland

Hanover, MD - Candlewood Road

Hanover, MD · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hanover, MD - Candlewood Road runs at 402% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

Hanover, MD - Candlewood Road: 18.1 TCR = 402% of industry BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hanover, MD - Candlewood Road safety composite

Hanover, MD - Candlewood Road scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

F

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

−6.8

2017→2018

Hanover, MD - Candlewood Road injury rate improved

Hanover, MD - Candlewood Road's TCR fell 6.8 from 21.5 in 2017 to 14.7 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 21.5 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=21.5 · 2018=14.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485111 · Hanover, MD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 18.1 · 402% of ind

  • DART 9.8 DART
  • RANK #19/20
  • PHOTO 9999 MTPD DISTRICT 3
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 9999 MTPD DISTRICT 3 (0.4 TCR gap)

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Hanover, MD - Candlewood Road in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hanover, MD - Candlewood Road averages 18.1 TCR (402% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Hanover, MD - Candlewood Road TCR series: 2017=21.5 · 2018=14.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Hanover, MD - Candlewood Road falls in its industry

421 industry establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 20 industry employers in Maryland.

Hanover, MD - Candlewood Road (20 employees, TCR 18.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 217 employees and a TCR of 5.8 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hanover, MD - Candlewood Road
Hanover, MD - Candlewood Road (20 employees, TCR 18.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 217 employees and a TCR of 5.8

Hanover, MD - Candlewood Road has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.8. 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
2018 14.7 9.8 3 0 0
2017 21.5 17.2 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485111 · MD · Hanover

421 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 121 employers in Hanover, 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 9999 MTPD DISTRICT 3 18.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Division 8 17.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spanaway, WA - 19700 38th Avenue East 19.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1953-4032 17.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hurlock Hatchery #26 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Perryman Station 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aberdeen Proving Grounds 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rockville Station 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR PPE Casino Resorts Maryland d/b/a Live! Casino & Hotel 2,371 FTE
CITY-NEAR Keller North America Inc. 2,303 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ciena - Remote workers 1,746 FTE
CITY-NEAR PEAPOD HANOVER WAREHOUSE 1,556 FTE
NAT-TCR 481 ABC Supply Co., Inc 18.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bickford of Champaign 18.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 254030-Grosse Ile Po 18.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Scottsbluff Public Schools 18.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE hi of carbondale, llc 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grand Ridge Energy Center 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Agricultural Construction 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Houston EB BASF 20 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.