Guitars and parts, electric and nonelectric, manufacturing · Maryland

Paul Reed Smith Guitars

Stevensville, MD · ~405 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Paul Reed Smith Guitars runs at 49% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Guitars and parts, electric and nonelectric, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Paul Reed Smith Guitars: 1.6 TCR = 49% of Guitars and parts, electric and nonelectric, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Paul Reed Smith Guitars safety composite

Paul Reed Smith Guitars scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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%).

Paul Reed Smith Guitars held a steady TCR band

Paul Reed Smith Guitars's TCR held near 0.1 from 1.7 in 2018 to 1.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=1.7 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339992 · Stevensville, MD AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 49% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK P85
  • PHOTO Ludwig Drum Company
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~405 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ludwig Drum Company (0.1 TCR gap)

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Paul Reed Smith Guitars in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Paul Reed Smith Guitars averages 1.6 TCR (49% of the Guitars and parts, electric and nonelectric, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Paul Reed Smith Guitars TCR series: 2018=1.7 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Paul Reed Smith Guitars falls in its industry

41 Guitars and parts, electric an establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Paul Reed Smith Guitars (405 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 110 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Paul Reed Smith Guitars
Paul Reed Smith Guitars (405 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 110 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Paul Reed Smith Guitars has more employees than the Guitars and parts, electric and nonelect median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2023 1.8 1.0 8 1 0
2022 1.4 0.7 6 0 0
2018 1.7 0.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339992 · MD · Stevensville

41 Guitars and parts, electric and nonelectric, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 12 employers in Stevensville, 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 Ludwig Drum Company 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR DR Handmade Strings Inc 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schilke Music Products, Inc. 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pipe Organs 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1890 405 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2560 405 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sysco Eastern Maryland 404 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wegmans Bel Air 053 406 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3419 - Kent Island 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR 01313 - STORE # 1313 STEVENSVILLE 111 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1313 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hydrasearch, LLC 61 FTE
NAT-TCR Brendamour Moving & Storage, Inc 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Perma R Products of TN Inc 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Muskegon Area District Library 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Green Bay Packaging Inc. Kalamazoo Division 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE MASS Precision, Inc. 405 FTE
NAT-SIZE Duracell LaGrange Plant 405 FTE
NAT-SIZE 72 Hin1000 405 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bway Chicago 405 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: 2023, 2022, 2018. 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.