Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers · Maryland

Hearn Kirkwood

Jessup, MD · ~155 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hearn Kirkwood runs at 499% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Hearn Kirkwood: 11.0 TCR = 499% of Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hearn Kirkwood safety composite

Hearn Kirkwood scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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 10.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Hearn Kirkwood: 5.9 → 19.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 19.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.41× in 2024

Hearn Kirkwood's TCR rose 13.1 from 5.9 in 2020 to 19.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424480 · Jessup, MD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.0 · 499% of ind

  • DART 15.4 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Cavalier Produce
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 61 inj
  • SIZE ~155 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cavalier Produce (0.1 TCR gap)

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Hearn Kirkwood in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hearn Kirkwood averages 11.0 TCR (499% of the Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Hearn Kirkwood TCR series: 2020=5.9 · 2021=11.8 · 2022=7.2 · 2024=19 · BLS 2.2

Where Hearn Kirkwood falls in its industry

369 Fresh fruits, vegetables and b establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Fresh fruits, vegetables and b employers in Maryland.

Hearn Kirkwood (155 employees, TCR 11.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hearn Kirkwood
Hearn Kirkwood (155 employees, TCR 11.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Hearn Kirkwood has more employees than the Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries mer median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 19.0 15.4 14 2 0
2022 7.2 6.0 12 0 0
2021 11.8 11.8 22 0 0
2020 5.9 5.9 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424480 · MD · Jessup

369 Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 122 employers in Jessup, 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 Cavalier Produce 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 7175_16270 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR P&P Transportation (KY DOCK) 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cut Fresh 11.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brawner Builders 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE Centerline Construction Company 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blind Industries and Services of Maryland - Headquarters 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0720 LOWE S OF TIMONIUM MD. 155 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lancaster Foods 785 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jessup Correctional Institution 530 FTE
CITY-NEAR RNDC Jessup 497 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sysco Baltimore, LLC 491 FTE
NAT-TCR CGS Premier 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR BATHMASTERS 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Apex Aluminum Die Casting Co Inc 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR AAA Mine Service, Inc. 11.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Northern Iowa Therapy PC 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE Evonik 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE Granbury Care Center 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE Omni Charlotte Hotel 155 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, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.