Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale · Maryland

Home Chef - Baltimore

Name: Home Chef - Baltimore Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Baltimore, MD · ~283 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.3
Avg TCR: 4.1
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Home Chef - Baltimore runs at 31% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale workplace, earning a grade A.

Home Chef - Baltimore: 1.3 TCR = 31% of Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Home Chef - Baltimore safety composite

Home Chef - Baltimore scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 1.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

−1.6

2023→2024

Home Chef - Baltimore injury rate improved

Home Chef - Baltimore's TCR fell 1.6 from 2.1 in 2023 to 0.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.1 · 2024=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311991 · Baltimore, MD AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 31% of ind

DART 0.5 DART
RANK #1/5
PHOTO Lincoln, RI factory
BOOK 2y book
INJ 5 inj
SIZE ~283 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lincoln, RI factory (0.0 TCR gap)

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1.3
Lincoln, RI fa

1.3
Fresh Express

1.3
CF Dallas

1.3
Rosaty Packagi

1.3

What this shows Home Chef - Baltimore averages 1.3 TCR (31% of the Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS benchmark).

Home Chef - Baltimore TCR series: 2023=2.1 · 2024=0.5 · BLS 4.1

Where Home Chef - Baltimore falls in its industry

376 Food, prepared, perishable, pa establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 5 Food, prepared, perishable, pa employers in Maryland.

Home Chef - Baltimore (283 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Home Chef - Baltimore has more employees than the Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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	0.5	0.5	2	0	0
2023	2.1	1.4	3	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311991 · MD · Baltimore

376 Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 1,031 employers in Baltimore, MD · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Lincoln, RI factory	LINCOLN, RI	1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Fresh Express Inc	GRAND PRAIRIE, TX	1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	CF Dallas	GRAND PRAIRIE, TX	1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Rosaty Packaging	HODGKINS, IL	1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Appleton East	ELKTON	283 FTE
STATE-SIZE	2271 - Annapolis	ANNAPOLIS	283 FTE
STATE-SIZE	5344	TOWSON	283 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Hospice of the Chesapeake	PASADENA	283 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Johns Hopkins Hospital	Baltimore	12,523 FTE
CITY-NEAR	University of Maryland Medical Center	Baltimore	7,980 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Sinai Hospital of Baltimore	Baltimore	7,770 FTE
CITY-NEAR	NGMS-T340	Baltimore	6,180 FTE
NAT-TCR	Horseshoe Indianapolis	Shelbyville, IN	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Curia	Springfield, MO	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Rockford Gastroenterology Associates, Ltd.	Rockford, IL	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Coffeyville	Coffeyville, KS	1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Schreiber Foods Inc. - Grand Rapids	Grand Rapids, MI	283 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Prisma Graphic	Phoenix, AZ	283 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Irondequoit	Rochester, NY	283 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Avgol America	Mocksville, NC	283 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.