Marine cargo handling services · Maryland

Ports America Chesapeake - Dundalk Marine Terminal

Baltimore, MD · ~186 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ports America Chesapeake - Dundalk Marine Terminal runs at 154% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Marine cargo handling services workplace, earning a grade D.

Ports America Chesapeake - Dundalk Marine Terminal: 7.0 TCR = 154% of Marine cargo handling services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ports America Chesapeake - Dundalk Marine Terminal safety composite

Ports America Chesapeake - Dundalk Marine Terminal scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.6

2022→2023

Ports America Chesapeake - Dundalk Marine Terminal injury rate improved

Ports America Chesapeake - Dundalk Marine Terminal's TCR fell 3.6 from 8.7 in 2022 to 5.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=8.7 · 2023=5.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488320 · Baltimore, MD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.0 · 154% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #10/17
  • PHOTO Coos Bay Shipping
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~186 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Coos Bay Shipping (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ports America Chesapeake - Dundalk Marine Terminal in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ports America Chesapeake - Dundalk Marine Terminal averages 7.0 TCR (154% of the Marine cargo handling services BLS benchmark).

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

Ports America Chesapeake - Dundalk Marine Terminal TCR series: 2022=8.7 · 2023=5.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Ports America Chesapeake - Dundalk Marine Terminal falls in its industry

391 Marine cargo handling services establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 17 Marine cargo handling services employers in Maryland.

Ports America Chesapeake - Dundalk Marine Terminal (186 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ports America Chesapeake - Dundalk Marine Terminal
Ports America Chesapeake - Dundalk Marine Terminal (186 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Ports America Chesapeake - Dundalk Marine Terminal has more employees than the Marine cargo handling services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 5.2 4.1 10 0 0
2022 8.7 7.7 17 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488320 · MD · Baltimore

391 Marine cargo handling services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 1,031 employers in Baltimore, 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 Coos Bay Shipping 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Napoleon Avenue 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Federal Marine Terminals of Albany 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nashville Avenue 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Donohoe Construction Company 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Merritt Management Corp - Merritt Construction Services - MD 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbia, Herrmann Dr. 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Capitol Drywall LLC 186 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johns Hopkins Hospital 12,523 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Maryland Medical Center 7,980 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sinai Hospital of Baltimore 7,770 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGMS-T340 6,180 FTE
NAT-TCR Northern Indiana Manufacturing 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Quality Custom Distribution 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR TMC Industries Inc. 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Freedom Springs (seasonal establishment) 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bryan Manor 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE Paladin Attachments 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bill Nichols State Veterans Home 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE Technical Consumer Products, Inc 186 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.