Nursery with tree production (except for reforestation) · Ohio

Acorn Farms - Sparta

Fredericktown, OH · ~135 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Acorn Farms - Sparta runs at 84% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Nursery with tree production (except for reforestation) workplace, earning a grade C.

Acorn Farms - Sparta: 3.8 TCR = 84% of Nursery with tree production (except for reforestation) BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Acorn Farms - Sparta safety composite

Acorn Farms - Sparta scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% 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).

C

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

Acorn Farms - Sparta held a steady TCR band

Acorn Farms - Sparta's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 9.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=0.0 · 2020=5.8 · 2021=9.3 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Fredericktown, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 84% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/18
  • PHOTO Holland Greenhouses …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~135 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Holland Greenhouses Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Acorn Farms - Sparta in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Acorn Farms - Sparta averages 3.8 TCR (84% of the Nursery with tree production (except for reforestation) BLS benchmark).

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

Acorn Farms - Sparta TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=5.8 · 2021=9.3 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Acorn Farms - Sparta falls in its industry

386 Nursery with tree production ( establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 18 Nursery with tree production ( employers in Ohio.

Acorn Farms - Sparta (135 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Acorn Farms - Sparta
Acorn Farms - Sparta (135 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Acorn Farms - Sparta has more employees than the Nursery with tree production (except for median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 9.3 3.1 3 0 0
2020 5.8 2.9 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · OH · Fredericktown

386 Nursery with tree production (except for reforestation) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 15 employers in Fredericktown, OH · 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 Holland Greenhouses Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wm. A. Natorp Company 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hammelmans Floral, LLC 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blue Heron Farm LLC 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Strawser Central Construction 135 FTE
STATE-SIZE Legacy Roofing Services, LLC 135 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ohio Valley Electrical Services 135 FTE
STATE-SIZE SiteWORX 135 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kokosing Construction Company, Inc 1,237 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kokosing Industrial, Inc. 716 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corman Kokosing Construction Co. 436 FTE
CITY-NEAR FT Precision INC 323 FTE
NAT-TCR Bmw of Anchorage 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Xcel Masonry, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Anthony of Lansing 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Woodcase Fine Cabinetry 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tech Tube 135 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grid Structures, LLC 135 FTE
NAT-SIZE William B Hopke 135 FTE
NAT-SIZE 064 Austin RDC 135 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, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.