Addition, alteration and renovation general contractors, commercial and institutional building · Maryland

Nichols Contracting Inc

Name: Nichols Contracting Inc Workplace Safety Data
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Sandy Spring, MD · ~95 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 12.9
Avg TCR: 2.9
Industry avg: 1
Fatality

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The verdict

Nichols Contracting Inc runs at 444% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Addition, alteration and renovation general contractors, commercial and institutional building workplace, earning a grade F.

Nichols Contracting Inc: 12.9 TCR = 444% of Addition, alteration and renovation general contractors, commercial and institutional building BLS 2.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nichols Contracting Inc safety composite

Nichols Contracting Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 4% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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).

3/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 12.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers
DART rate: F 7.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers
Fatalities: F 1

Safer than 1% 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

Nichols Contracting Inc: 9.1 → 16.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 16.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.6× in 2020

Nichols Contracting Inc's TCR rose 7.6 from 9.1 in 2018 to 16.7 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236220 · Sandy Spring, MD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.9 · 444% of ind

DART 7.8 DART
RANK #97/99
PHOTO Fox Structures Inc.
BOOK 2y book
INJ 22 inj
SIZE ~95 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fox Structures Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Nichols Contracting Inc averages 12.9 TCR (444% of the Addition, alteration and renovation general contractors, commercial and institutional building BLS benchmark).

Nichols Contracting Inc TCR series: 2018=9.1 · 2020=16.7 · BLS 2.9

Where Nichols Contracting Inc falls in its industry

4,692 Addition, alteration and renov establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #97 safest of 99 Addition, alteration and renov employers in Maryland.

Nichols Contracting Inc (95 employees, TCR 12.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Nichols Contracting Inc has more employees than the Addition, alteration and renovation gene median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2020	16.7	7.8	15	0	1
2018	9.1	2.6	7	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236220 · MD · Sandy Spring

4,692 Addition, alteration and renovation general contractors, commercial and institutional building employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 4 employers in Sandy Spring, 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	Fox Structures Inc.	KAUKAUNA, WI	12.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Berghammer Builders Inc.	CLAYTON, WI	12.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	4549 Tabor F	WHEAT RIDGE, CO	12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Decker Concrete, Inc	DYERSVILLE, IA	12.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Trulieve	HANCOCK	95 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WGL MD - Chillum Road	CHILLUM	95 FTE
STATE-SIZE	6901 PENNSY PLNT TRST	HYATTSVILLE	95 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Harvey W. Hottel	GAITHERSBURG	95 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Brooke Grove Retirement Village	Sandy Spring	407 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Friends House Retirement Community, Inc.	Sandy Spring	138 FTE
CITY-NEAR	BROOKE GROVE FOUNDATION	Sandy Spring	44 FTE
NAT-TCR	Topre America Corporation- TN Stamping	Smyrna, TN	12.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Windsor Terrace Westlake Village	Westlake Village, CA	12.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Skyline Champion #233	Arkansas City, KS	12.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	RideRight - Clarion, PA	Shippenville, PA	12.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	VTA Houma	Houma, LA	95 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Bolton & Menk - Burnsville	Burnsville, MN	95 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Eldorado Casino	Henderson, NV	95 FTE
NAT-SIZE	CM17HCCllc	Sioux Falls, SD	95 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, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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