Frozen foods, packaged (except dairy products), merchant wholesalers · Maryland

Soft Stuff

Jessup, MD · ~41 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Soft Stuff runs at 73% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Frozen foods, packaged (except dairy products), merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Soft Stuff: 1.6 TCR = 73% of Frozen foods, packaged (except dairy products), merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Soft Stuff safety composite

Soft Stuff scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 94% 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).

B

82/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% 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%).

Soft Stuff held a steady TCR band

Soft Stuff's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=2.2 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424420 · Jessup, MD AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.6 · 73% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/4
  • PHOTO Caruso Inc
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Caruso Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Soft Stuff in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Soft Stuff averages 1.6 TCR (73% of the Frozen foods, packaged (except dairy products), merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Soft Stuff TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=2.2 · 2019=0 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Soft Stuff falls in its industry

134 Frozen foods, packaged (except establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 4 Frozen foods, packaged (except employers in Maryland.

Soft Stuff (41 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 7.4 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Soft Stuff
Soft Stuff (41 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 7.4

Soft Stuff has fewer employees than the Frozen foods, packaged (except dairy pro median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.4. 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 2.2 0.0 1 0 0
2017 4.8 0.0 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424420 · MD · Jessup

134 Frozen foods, packaged (except dairy products), 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 Caruso Inc 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Natchitoches Meat Pies 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kool Ice & Seafood 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fort Worth 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE MaryMed, LLC - Hurlock 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tecta America East LLC - Baltimore 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE HBSHSEMD65 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE T&B Electric Co., Inc. 41 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 Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC-042 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR KB Home Coastal 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Merrifield Headquarters 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Primary Care Ambulance Corp 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Embraer Executive Jet Services LLC BDL 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE FedEx Office Memphis TN CPC 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE FedEx Office Los Angeles CA Manufacturing 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Waterford at Roxbury Park 41 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.