Berries, fresh, merchant wholesalers · Maryland

Pete Pappas & Sons, Inc

Jessup, MD · ~167 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pete Pappas & Sons, Inc runs at 324% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Berries, fresh, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Pete Pappas & Sons, Inc: 7.1 TCR = 324% of Berries, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pete Pappas & Sons, Inc safety composite

Pete Pappas & Sons, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

Pete Pappas & Sons, Inc: 7.0 → 8.2 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 11.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2024

Pete Pappas & Sons, Inc's TCR rose 1.2 from 7.0 in 2018 to 8.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 11.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.1 · 324% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO Chiquita Fresh North…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 83 inj
  • SIZE ~167 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chiquita Fresh North America- PEV (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pete Pappas & Sons, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pete Pappas & Sons, Inc averages 7.1 TCR (324% of the Berries, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Pete Pappas & Sons, Inc TCR series: 2018=7 · 2019=5.9 · 2020=8.7 · 2021=11.2 · 2022=4.7 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=8.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Pete Pappas & Sons, Inc falls in its industry

369 Berries, fresh, merchant whole establishments

Safer than 33% 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 #3 safest of 5 Berries, fresh, merchant whole employers in Maryland.

Pete Pappas & Sons, Inc (167 employees, TCR 7.1) 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 Pete Pappas & Sons, Inc
Pete Pappas & Sons, Inc (167 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Pete Pappas & Sons, Inc has more employees than the Berries, fresh, merchant wholesalers median and a higher 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
2024 8.2 4.9 14 1 0
2023 4.3 4.3 9 0 0
2022 4.7 4.7 8 0 0
2021 11.2 9.4 19 0 0
2020 8.7 7.0 14 1 0
2019 5.9 4.6 9 0 0
2018 7.0 5.6 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424480 · MD · Jessup

369 Berries, fresh, 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 Chiquita Fresh North America- PEV 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Agripack 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 7175_16277 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Duck Delivery Produce of Washington, Inc. 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE American Contracting & Environmental Services, Inc. 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Capitol Heights MD Branch 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mechanical Services-Sparks 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pompeian, Inc. 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lancaster Foods 785 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jessup Correctional Institution 530 FTE
CITY-NEAR RNDC Jessup 497 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sysco Baltimore, LLC 491 FTE
NAT-TCR Wallwork Truck Center Grand Forks 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Pro Trucking, Inc. 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bedford Care Center of Mendenhall, LLC 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Selflock Screw Products Co., INC 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE KAM Plastics Corp 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Windom Area Health 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Won-Door Corporation 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stemmle Plumbing Repair, Inc. 167 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.