Electrical contractors · Maryland

Valid Electric Co., Inc.

Gaithersburg, MD · ~42 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Valid Electric Co., Inc. runs at 165% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Electrical contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Valid Electric Co., Inc.: 4.6 TCR = 165% of Electrical contractors BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valid Electric Co., Inc. safety composite

Valid Electric Co., Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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

−11.5

2019→2024

Valid Electric Co., Inc. injury rate improved

Valid Electric Co., Inc.'s TCR fell 11.5 from 14.0 in 2019 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 14.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=14.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238210 · Gaithersburg, MD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 165% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #63/77
  • PHOTO Fargo
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fargo (0.0 TCR gap)

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Valid Electric Co., Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Valid Electric Co., Inc. averages 4.6 TCR (165% of the Electrical contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Valid Electric Co., Inc. TCR series: 2019=14 · 2021=0 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 2.8

Where Valid Electric Co., Inc. falls in its industry

4,550 Electrical contractors establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #63 safest of 77 Electrical contractors employers in Maryland.

Valid Electric Co., Inc. (42 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Valid Electric Co., Inc.
Valid Electric Co., Inc. (42 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Valid Electric Co., Inc. has fewer employees than the Electrical contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2023 1.9 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 14.0 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238210 · MD · Gaithersburg

4,550 Electrical contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 202 employers in Gaithersburg, 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 Fargo 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 9025 - 1-MAIN 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR C-CAT, Inc 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Lighting & Signalization LLC 150 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fort Meade 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE MDP Contracting, Inc. 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cuddy & Associates 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE OHLA USA INC-Purple Line Project, Maryland/MTS JV 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR AstraZeneca Gaithersburg Campus 4,117 FTE
CITY-NEAR MDGAI - GAITHERSBURG HUB 794 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adventist Healthcare Support Center to SGMC 764 FTE
CITY-NEAR MDGAI - GAITHERSBURG-PACKAGE CENTER 759 FTE
NAT-TCR Fargo 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 40233 - Capstone Kroger Phoenix Az 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Steele AL 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 1053 - Merritt Island 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Vanguard El Paso 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0d56 - Hartford Fire 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Cedars Camps 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE GEM Industrial Inc. - North Star BlueScope Steel (Project Aristotle) 42 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, 2021, 2019. 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.