Commercial bakeries · Maryland

Ottenberg's Bakers, Inc.- Eldersburg, MD

Eldersburg, MD · ~103 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ottenberg's Bakers, Inc.- Eldersburg, MD runs at 268% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Commercial bakeries workplace, earning a grade F.

Ottenberg's Bakers, Inc.- Eldersburg, MD: 8.8 TCR = 268% of Commercial bakeries BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ottenberg's Bakers, Inc.- Eldersburg, MD safety composite

Ottenberg's Bakers, Inc.- Eldersburg, MD scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Ottenberg's Bakers, Inc.- Eldersburg, MD: 17.2 → 51.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 51.8 TCR · DART/TCR 2.66× in 2022

Ottenberg's Bakers, Inc.- Eldersburg, MD's TCR rose 34.5 from 17.2 in 2017 to 51.8 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 2.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311812 · Eldersburg, MD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 268% of ind

  • DART 23.5 DART
  • RANK #18/19
  • PHOTO Ann Arbor Sales Branch
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 46 inj
  • SIZE ~103 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ann Arbor Sales Branch (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ottenberg's Bakers, Inc.- Eldersburg, MD in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ottenberg's Bakers, Inc.- Eldersburg, MD averages 8.8 TCR (268% of the Commercial bakeries BLS benchmark).

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

Ottenberg's Bakers, Inc.- Eldersburg, MD TCR series: 2017=17.2 · 2018=7.8 · 2020=1.5 · 2022=51.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Ottenberg's Bakers, Inc.- Eldersburg, MD falls in its industry

1,014 Commercial bakeries establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 19 Commercial bakeries employers in Maryland.

Ottenberg's Bakers, Inc.- Eldersburg, MD (103 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 01,0002,0003,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Ottenberg's Bakers, Inc.- Eldersburg, MD
Ottenberg's Bakers, Inc.- Eldersburg, MD (103 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Ottenberg's Bakers, Inc.- Eldersburg, MD has fewer employees than the Commercial bakeries median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2022 51.8 23.5 7 4 0
2020 1.5 1.1 4 0 0
2018 7.8 5.7 11 0 0
2017 17.2 15.8 24 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311812 · MD · Eldersburg

1,014 Commercial bakeries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 21 employers in Eldersburg, 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 Ann Arbor Sales Branch 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Delsea - Retail 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bailey Street Bakery LLC. 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Headquarters 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cockeysville Service Center 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thrifty Iron Works Inc 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Interiors Baltimore- Cleveland Construction 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR 106307 273 FTE
CITY-NEAR MARTIN'S FOOD MARKETS 6307 271 FTE
CITY-NEAR M.T. LANEY COMPANY, INC. 207 FTE
CITY-NEAR Retro Environmental Inc 161 FTE
NAT-TCR 0671 - Hawthorne Ca Whse 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sutter Medical Center Sacramento (110-1011) 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Hirel Connectors - Cables (York) 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR STAR Industry 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Canyon State Electric-Phoenix 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waste Industries Tri-East 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grov Technologies LLC 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Woodlands 103 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, 2020, 2018, 2017. 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.