Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers · Tennessee

AgCentral Farmers Co-op, Athens

Athens, TN · ~74 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AgCentral Farmers Co-op, Athens runs at 285% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

AgCentral Farmers Co-op, Athens: 6.3 TCR = 285% of Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AgCentral Farmers Co-op, Athens safety composite

AgCentral Farmers Co-op, Athens scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

−10.4

2016→2024

AgCentral Farmers Co-op, Athens injury rate improved

AgCentral Farmers Co-op, Athens's TCR fell 10.4 from 16.4 in 2016 to 6.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 16.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=16.4 · 2018=3.6 · 2021=3.6 · 2022=1.7 · 2024=6.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Athens, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.3 · 285% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #51/59
  • PHOTO Davenport NE
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Davenport NE (0.0 TCR gap)

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AgCentral Farmers Co-op, Athens in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AgCentral Farmers Co-op, Athens averages 6.3 TCR (285% of the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

AgCentral Farmers Co-op, Athens TCR series: 2016=16.4 · 2018=3.6 · 2021=3.6 · 2022=1.7 · 2024=6 · BLS 2.2

Where AgCentral Farmers Co-op, Athens falls in its industry

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchan establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #51 safest of 59 Agricultural chemicals merchan employers in Tennessee.

AgCentral Farmers Co-op, Athens (74 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 AgCentral Farmers Co-op, Athens
AgCentral Farmers Co-op, Athens (74 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

AgCentral Farmers Co-op, Athens has more employees than the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesal median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 6.0 4.5 4 0 0
2022 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2021 3.6 1.8 2 0 0
2018 3.6 1.8 2 0 0
2016 16.4 5.5 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · TN · Athens

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 77 employers in Athens, TN · 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 Davenport NE 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farmers Coop Society-Sanborn 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR NEW Cooperative Inc. - Duncombe 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harrisburg Feed 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Middle Tennessee Electric (Rutherford County Office) 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arcus Restoration 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grinder, Taber and Grinder, Inc. 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Reese Enterprises Inc 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR DENSO Manufacturing Athens Tennessee, INC 1,659 FTE
CITY-NEAR DENSO Manufacturing Athens, TN INC 1,638 FTE
CITY-NEAR Starr Regional Medical Center 603 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adient Athens 540 FTE
NAT-TCR Marysville Auto Plant 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Bulk Service Transport, Inc DBA James J Williams 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Goodwill CFL - St Cloud 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Goodwill CFL - Goldenrod 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brigade Fire Protection 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Steel Craft Technologies Inc. - Belmont 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE JBS Roofing 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Huntington Fire Company #3 74 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, 2022, 2021, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.