Specialty Food and Drink Distribution · Maryland

Soft Stuff Distributors

Jessup, MD · ~49 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Soft Stuff Distributors runs at 805% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Specialty Food and Drink Distribution workplace, earning a grade F.

Soft Stuff Distributors: 17.7 TCR = 805% of Specialty Food and Drink Distribution BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Soft Stuff Distributors safety composite

Soft Stuff Distributors scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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).

F

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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%).

TCR Δ

−8.7

2022→2023

Soft Stuff Distributors injury rate improved

Soft Stuff Distributors's TCR fell 8.7 from 22.0 in 2022 to 13.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 22.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=22.0 · 2023=13.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · Jessup, MD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.7 · 805% of ind

  • DART 8.9 DART
  • RANK #23/23
  • PHOTO BUSA - Sacramento-Dist
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BUSA - Sacramento-Dist (0.1 TCR gap)

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Soft Stuff Distributors in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Soft Stuff Distributors averages 17.7 TCR (805% of the Specialty Food and Drink Distribution BLS benchmark).

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

Soft Stuff Distributors TCR series: 2022=22 · 2023=13.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Soft Stuff Distributors falls in its industry

1,278 Specialty Food and Drink Distr establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 23 Specialty Food and Drink Distr employers in Maryland.

Soft Stuff Distributors (49 employees, TCR 17.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Soft Stuff Distributors
Soft Stuff Distributors (49 employees, TCR 17.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Soft Stuff Distributors has fewer employees than the Specialty Food and Drink Distribution median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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 13.4 8.9 6 0 0
2022 22.0 22.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · MD · Jessup

1,278 Specialty Food and Drink Distribution 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 BUSA - Sacramento-Dist 17.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chefs Warehouse West Coast LLC- Portland 17.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Florida 17.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABInc Warehouse 17.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Callas Contractors, LLC 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE CSI DC 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Livingston Fire Protection 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE W.G./Welch Mechanical Contractors LLC 49 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 Kingsland Hills Care Center 17.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Vincent's Heating and Plumbing Inc 17.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 252525-Det-Seven Oaks Sta 17.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 568845-Mil-Western Sta 17.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE NAPP New Castle - 013 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fern Lodge 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Love's Truck Solutions 6120 Indianapolis, IN 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE WA033 49 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.