Maryland Labor and Employment Section 5-810
§ 5-810.
  (a)   (1)   Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, a civil penalty under § 5-809 of this subtitle may not exceed:
      (i)   $7,000 for each violation; and
      (ii)   if an employer does not correct a violation within the period allowed for correction, $7,000 for each day that the violation continues.
    (2)   A civil penalty for a willful or repeated violation of a provision of this title, an order passed under this title, or a regulation adopted to carry out this title may not exceed $70,000 for each violation.
    (3)   A civil penalty for a willful violation of a provision of this title, an order passed under this title, or a regulation adopted to carry out this title may not be less than $5,000.
  (b)   Before the Commissioner assesses a civil penalty under § 5-809 of this subtitle, the Commissioner shall consider the appropriateness of the penalty in relation to:
    (1)   the size of the business of the employer against whom the penalty is to be assessed;
    (2)   the gravity of the violation for which the penalty is to be assessed;
    (3)   the good faith of the employer;
    (4)   the history of violations by the employer;
    (5)   the injury and illness experience of the employer;
    (6)   the existence and quality of a safety and training program;
    (7)   the actual harm to human health including injury or illness;
    (8)   the extent to which the current violation is part of a recurrent pattern of the same or similar type of violation; and
    (9)   the extent to which the existence of the violation was known to the employer but remained not corrected.