Heating oil dealers, direct selling · Maryland

Southern Maryland Oil - LaPlata

La Plata, MD · ~69 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern Maryland Oil - LaPlata runs at 80% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Heating oil dealers, direct selling workplace, earning a grade C.

Southern Maryland Oil - LaPlata: 2.7 TCR = 80% of Heating oil dealers, direct selling BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Maryland Oil - LaPlata safety composite

Southern Maryland Oil - LaPlata scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

Southern Maryland Oil - LaPlata: 0.0 → 5.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.88× in 2024

Southern Maryland Oil - LaPlata's TCR rose 5.1 from 0.0 in 2022 to 5.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 454310 · La Plata, MD AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 80% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #3/9
  • PHOTO Long Oil Heat Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~69 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Long Oil Heat Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern Maryland Oil - LaPlata in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern Maryland Oil - LaPlata averages 2.7 TCR (80% of the Heating oil dealers, direct selling BLS benchmark).

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

Southern Maryland Oil - LaPlata TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=5.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Southern Maryland Oil - LaPlata falls in its industry

366 Heating oil dealers, direct se establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

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 9 Heating oil dealers, direct se employers in Maryland.

Southern Maryland Oil - LaPlata (69 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 020406080100 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Southern Maryland Oil - LaPlata
Southern Maryland Oil - LaPlata (69 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Southern Maryland Oil - LaPlata has more employees than the Heating oil dealers, direct selling median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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 5.1 5.1 3 0 0
2023 3.1 0.0 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

454310 · MD · La Plata

366 Heating oil dealers, direct selling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 26 employers in La Plata, 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 Long Oil Heat Inc 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR AmeriGas - Swanton, OH 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR AmeriGas - West Palm Beach FL 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Georgetown Branch 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE H. A. Wagner, L.L.C. 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE DRB Group West Virginia, LLC 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henry H. Lewis Contractors, LLC 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iacoboni Site Specialists 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charles County Government 1,751 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Maryland Charles Regional Medical Center 756 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charles County Sheriff's Office 639 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2853 307 FTE
NAT-TCR Halcyon Construction Corp 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Industrial Container Services LLC (Kentucky) 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Rays Stairs Inc- SHOP 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR George P Johnson Torrance 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Carrier Corporation (Indianpolis DC) 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carrier Commercial Services (Houston) 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Superior Clay 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alleguard - Cave Spring 69 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. 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.