Small animal veterinary services · Maryland

Muddy Branch Veterinary Center

Gaithersburg, MD · ~22 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Muddy Branch Veterinary Center runs at 1002% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Small animal veterinary services workplace, earning a grade F.

Muddy Branch Veterinary Center: 5.0 TCR = 1002% of Small animal veterinary services BLS 0.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Muddy Branch Veterinary Center safety composite

Muddy Branch Veterinary Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 5.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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

Muddy Branch Veterinary Center: 0.0 → 10.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Muddy Branch Veterinary Center's TCR rose 10.0 from 0.0 in 2023 to 10.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541940 · Gaithersburg, MD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.0 · 1002% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/4
  • PHOTO Lakefield Veterinary…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lakefield Veterinary Group - 149 (0.1 TCR gap)

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Muddy Branch Veterinary Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Muddy Branch Veterinary Center averages 5.0 TCR (1002% of the Small animal veterinary services BLS benchmark).

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

Muddy Branch Veterinary Center TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=10 · BLS 0.5

Where Muddy Branch Veterinary Center falls in its industry

261 Small animal veterinary servic establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 12.0.

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 4 Small animal veterinary servic employers in Maryland.

Muddy Branch Veterinary Center (22 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 12.0 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 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Muddy Branch Veterinary Center
Muddy Branch Veterinary Center (22 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 12.0

Muddy Branch Veterinary Center has fewer employees than the Small animal veterinary services median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 12.0. 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 10.0 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541940 · MD · Gaithersburg

261 Small animal veterinary services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 202 employers in Gaithersburg, 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 Lakefield Veterinary Group - 149 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lakefield Veterinary Group - 107 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stellar Veterinary Services, LLC 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pipestone Veterinary Clinic of Iowa 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE St. Charles Energy Center 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE CRB Builders, LLC - Rockville Office 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harbel Inc 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE LCS:LC061 - LC061-Elkridge MD 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR AstraZeneca Gaithersburg Campus 4,117 FTE
CITY-NEAR MDGAI - GAITHERSBURG HUB 794 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adventist Healthcare Support Center to SGMC 764 FTE
CITY-NEAR MDGAI - GAITHERSBURG-PACKAGE CENTER 759 FTE
NAT-TCR Storm Construction, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Broadwind Heavy Fabrications 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hillphoenix, Inc 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Katerberg VerHage, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Quermback Electric, Inc. 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Poly Vinyl Roofing 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE D & D Products Inc 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Src Roofing, Inc. 22 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.