Preparing and subdividing land for sale · Maryland

Highland Turf Inc t/a HTI Contractors

Finksburg, MD · ~99 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Highland Turf Inc t/a HTI Contractors runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Preparing and subdividing land for sale workplace, earning a grade D.

Highland Turf Inc t/a HTI Contractors: 4.5 TCR = 159% of Preparing and subdividing land for sale BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Highland Turf Inc t/a HTI Contractors safety composite

Highland Turf Inc t/a HTI Contractors scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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).

D

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.8

2023→2024

Highland Turf Inc t/a HTI Contractors injury rate improved

Highland Turf Inc t/a HTI Contractors's TCR fell 4.8 from 6.8 in 2023 to 2.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.8 · 2024=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237210 · Finksburg, MD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 159% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK P39
  • PHOTO Salls
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~99 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Salls (0.0 TCR gap)

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Highland Turf Inc t/a HTI Contractors in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Highland Turf Inc t/a HTI Contractors averages 4.5 TCR (159% of the Preparing and subdividing land for sale BLS benchmark).

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

Highland Turf Inc t/a HTI Contractors TCR series: 2023=6.8 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 2.8

Where Highland Turf Inc t/a HTI Contractors falls in its industry

62 Preparing and subdividing land establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Highland Turf Inc t/a HTI Contractors (99 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Highland Turf Inc t/a HTI Contractors
Highland Turf Inc t/a HTI Contractors (99 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Highland Turf Inc t/a HTI Contractors has more employees than the Preparing and subdividing land for sale median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 2.1 2.1 2 0 0
2023 6.8 6.8 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237210 · MD · Finksburg

62 Preparing and subdividing land for sale employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 9 employers in Finksburg, 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 Salls 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Desert Pass Construction Inc 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jensen's Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Briar Team, LLC 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hatzel & Buehler Inc. - Maryland 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE GES 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hawkins Electric Service, Inc 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maryland 99 FTE
CITY-NEAR SEH Excavating, inc 277 FTE
CITY-NEAR 02193 - STORE # 2193 FINKSBURG 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2193 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kibler Construction Co Inc 59 FTE
NAT-TCR Nashville, TN 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR CTG Leasing 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern Shutter Co. 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Gaord - Buford Center 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Willingway 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Community Living Concepts, Inc 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vyletel Group, Inc. 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Detention Center 99 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. 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.