Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers · Maryland

Lancaster Foods

Jessup, MD · ~785 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lancaster Foods runs at 190% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Lancaster Foods: 4.2 TCR = 190% of Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lancaster Foods safety composite

Lancaster Foods scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% 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).

C

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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

−2.2

2016→2022

Lancaster Foods injury rate improved

Lancaster Foods's TCR fell 2.2 from 5.0 in 2016 to 2.8 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.0 · 2020=5.0 · 2021=4.0 · 2022=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 190% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #2/5
  • PHOTO Get Fresh Produce - …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 133 inj
  • SIZE ~785 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Get Fresh Produce - Indianapolis (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lancaster Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lancaster Foods averages 4.2 TCR (190% 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

Lancaster Foods TCR series: 2016=5 · 2020=5 · 2021=4 · 2022=2.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Lancaster Foods falls in its industry

369 Fresh fruits, vegetables and b establishments

Safer than 61% 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 #2 safest of 5 Fresh fruits, vegetables and b employers in Maryland.

Lancaster Foods (785 employees, TCR 4.2) 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 Lancaster Foods
Lancaster Foods (785 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Lancaster Foods has more employees than the Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries mer median and a lower 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
2022 2.8 2.6 18 0 0
2021 4.0 3.6 20 2 0
2020 5.0 4.8 46 3 0
2016 5.0 4.3 49 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 Get Fresh Produce - Indianapolis 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR FreshEdge, LLC 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Del Monte Fresh Produce LADC Santa Fe Springs 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nogales Produce Inc. 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Space Telescope Science Institute 784 FTE
STATE-SIZE MDGAI - GAITHERSBURG HUB 794 FTE
STATE-SIZE Community Services for Autistic Adults and Children (CSAAC) 776 FTE
STATE-SIZE AstraZeneca Frederick Manufacturing Center 775 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jessup Correctional Institution 530 FTE
CITY-NEAR RNDC Jessup 497 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sysco Baltimore, LLC 491 FTE
CITY-NEAR Republic National Distributing Company 26 483 FTE
NAT-TCR PSSI - 0669 Mountaire Farms Inc. - Siler City 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR PSSI - 0036 Abbyland Foods Inc. - Abbotsford 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Rock Technologies Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Mauser Packaging Solutions 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ready Pac Foods 785 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chicago (ORD) 785 FTE
NAT-SIZE FCI Greenville 785 FTE
NAT-SIZE Procter and Gamble - Tabler Station 785 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.