Snack Food Manufacturer · Maryland

Herr Foods - 068 Elkridge MD

Elkridge, MD · ~36 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Herr Foods - 068 Elkridge MD runs at 134% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Snack Food Manufacturer workplace, earning a grade D.

Herr Foods - 068 Elkridge MD: 5.5 TCR = 134% of Snack Food Manufacturer BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Herr Foods - 068 Elkridge MD safety composite

Herr Foods - 068 Elkridge MD scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Herr Foods - 068 Elkridge MD: 5.1 → 9.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.22× in 2024

Herr Foods - 068 Elkridge MD's TCR rose 3.9 from 5.1 in 2022 to 9.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Elkridge, MD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 134% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Ballreich Snack Food
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ballreich Snack Food (0.0 TCR gap)

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Herr Foods - 068 Elkridge MD in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Herr Foods - 068 Elkridge MD averages 5.5 TCR (134% of the Snack Food Manufacturer BLS benchmark).

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

Herr Foods - 068 Elkridge MD TCR series: 2022=5.1 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=9 · BLS 4.1

Where Herr Foods - 068 Elkridge MD falls in its industry

253 Snack Food Manufacturer establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

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 4 Snack Food Manufacturer employers in Maryland.

Herr Foods - 068 Elkridge MD (36 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Herr Foods - 068 Elkridge MD
Herr Foods - 068 Elkridge MD (36 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Herr Foods - 068 Elkridge MD has fewer employees than the Snack Food Manufacturer median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2024 9.0 6.7 4 0 0
2023 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2022 5.1 5.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · MD · Elkridge

253 Snack Food Manufacturer employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 90 employers in Elkridge, 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 Ballreich Snack Food 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR G&S Foods LLC 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Axium Foods, Inc 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Double Good 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE ForwardGro, LLC 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE R.W. Sauder Inc. 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gibraltar Construction Co., Inc. 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE BOB BREEDING GENERAL CONTRACTORS, LLC 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bell Nursery - Store Employees 557 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - SMD1 424 FTE
CITY-NEAR Executive Maintenance, Inc. 420 FTE
CITY-NEAR Center for Social Change 419 FTE
NAT-TCR Langlas & Associates 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Autism Learning Partners laguna Hills 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Naperville 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR MN - Bayer 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sprague Operating Resources - Searsport 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sprague Operating Resources - River Road 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Materion - Lorain 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE WMG 36 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.