FROZEN SEAFOOD MERCHANT · Maryland

Kool Ice & Seafood

Cambridge, MD · ~46 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kool Ice & Seafood runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical FROZEN SEAFOOD MERCHANT workplace, earning a grade B.

Kool Ice & Seafood: 1.6 TCR = 75% of FROZEN SEAFOOD MERCHANT BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kool Ice & Seafood safety composite

Kool Ice & Seafood scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 94% 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).

B

81/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% 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

−3.9

2016→2020

Kool Ice & Seafood injury rate improved

Kool Ice & Seafood's TCR fell 3.9 from 3.9 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.3 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.9 · 2017=4.3 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424420 · Cambridge, MD AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.6 · 75% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO Natchitoches Meat Pies
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Natchitoches Meat Pies (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kool Ice & Seafood in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kool Ice & Seafood averages 1.6 TCR (75% of the FROZEN SEAFOOD MERCHANT BLS benchmark).

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

Kool Ice & Seafood TCR series: 2016=3.9 · 2017=4.3 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Kool Ice & Seafood falls in its industry

134 FROZEN SEAFOOD MERCHANT establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 FROZEN SEAFOOD MERCHANT employers in Maryland.

Kool Ice & Seafood (46 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 7.4 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Kool Ice & Seafood
Kool Ice & Seafood (46 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 7.4

Kool Ice & Seafood has fewer employees than the FROZEN SEAFOOD MERCHANT median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.4. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 4.3 4.3 2 0 0
2016 3.9 3.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424420 · MD · Cambridge

134 FROZEN SEAFOOD MERCHANT employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 23 employers in Cambridge, 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 Natchitoches Meat Pies 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Soft Stuff 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Caruso Inc 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR PPDC 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE AB Construction, Inc 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE CG005 - Baltimore Metro 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE W & W Electric Co., Inc. 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Mechanical, Inc. 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay Golf Resort Spa and Marina 429 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay 358 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2272 277 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2272 258 FTE
NAT-TCR Motor Carrier Service LLC 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Knighted Ventures, LLC 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Conecsus Aerospace 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Quanex Building Products - Luck, WI 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Limington Lumber Company 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pediatric Dentistry & Family Orthodontics 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thomas Eilen 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wellington Regional Medical Center 46 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.