Farm supply stores · Wisconsin

22 - Theisen's - Sparta

Sparta, WI · ~41 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

22 - Theisen's - Sparta runs at 351% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Farm supply stores workplace, earning a grade F.

22 - Theisen's - Sparta: 11.9 TCR = 351% of Farm supply stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

22 - Theisen's - Sparta safety composite

22 - Theisen's - Sparta scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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 11.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

22 - Theisen's - Sparta: 10.4 → 11.3 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 14.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.94× in 2018

22 - Theisen's - Sparta's TCR rose 0.9 from 10.4 in 2016 to 11.3 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 14.2 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444220 · Sparta, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.9 · 351% of ind

  • DART 11.3 DART
  • RANK #30/30
  • PHOTO Armstrong Garden Cen…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Armstrong Garden Centers 702 (0.0 TCR gap)

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22 - Theisen's - Sparta in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 22 - Theisen's - Sparta averages 11.9 TCR (351% of the Farm supply stores BLS benchmark).

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

22 - Theisen's - Sparta TCR series: 2016=10.4 · 2017=14.2 · 2018=11.3 · BLS 3.4

Where 22 - Theisen's - Sparta falls in its industry

642 Farm supply stores establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 30 Farm supply stores employers in Wisconsin.

22 - Theisen's - Sparta (41 employees, TCR 11.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 22 - Theisen's - Sparta
22 - Theisen's - Sparta (41 employees, TCR 11.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

22 - Theisen's - Sparta has fewer employees than the Farm supply stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. 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
2018 11.3 11.3 3 0 0
2017 14.2 10.6 4 0 0
2016 10.4 10.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · WI · Sparta

642 Farm supply stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 44 employers in Sparta, WI · 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 Armstrong Garden Centers 702 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meadows Farms- Fredericksburg, VA 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Armstrong Garden Centers 751 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bachman's Apple Valley 12.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE SunVest Solar LLC 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mineral Point Operations Bldg 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE CMC Construction Inc. - Ashland, WI 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bilfinger - P&G Green Bay 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sparta Area School District 587 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mathews Archery, Inc 345 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern Engraving Corporation 321 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plant Four 307 FTE
NAT-TCR Hermitage Gardens of Southaven 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR White Water 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Vocational Training Center 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hanson's Plumbing and Heating 11.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE VIC-HCT-VICTORIA 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE D.C. Cpc 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hyatt Place Sacramento/Roseville 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE J. F. Shea Construction, PA 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: 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.