Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers · Alabama
Alabama Farmers Cooperative Farm and Home
Decatur, AL · ~27 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- B
- Good Safety Record
- 1.2
- Avg TCR
- 2.2
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Alabama Farmers Cooperative Farm and Home runs at 54% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.
- B
- Good Safety Record
- 1.2
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 2.2
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 1
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Alabama Farmers Cooperative Farm and Home's OSHA Total Case Rate of 1.2 to the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark of 2.2 (54% of benchmark) across 3 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). This reflects reported recordable injuries, not an independent safety inspection -- underreporting is a known limitation of employer self-recordkeeping.
Injury rate over time
Alabama Farmers Cooperative Farm and Home's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 2.2 industry benchmark.
Where Alabama Farmers Cooperative Farm and Home falls in its industry
1,442 Agricultural chemicals merchan establishmentsSafer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.
Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 17 Agricultural chemicals merchan employers in Alabama.
Trend analysis for Alabama Farmers Cooperative Farm and Home
Between 2017 and 2019, Alabama Farmers Cooperative Farm and Home's Total Case Rate held roughly steady from 0.0 to 3.6 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 0% change across 2 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2017, at a TCR of 0.0, while 2019 saw the highest rate, at 3.6, a spread of 3.6 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 3 reporting years, Alabama Farmers Cooperative Farm and Home recorded 1 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 3-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 1 injuries shown on this page for Alabama Farmers Cooperative Farm and Home are sourced from its own 3 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 424910 - Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2019)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
1 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 56,160 hours worked = 3.56 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Alabama Farmers Cooperative Farm and Home (this establishment) | 1.19 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 3-year avg |
| Farm Supplies industry avg | 2.20 | BLS IIF, NAICS 424910 |
| Alabama state avg (all industries) | 4.09 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Alabama Farmers Cooperative Farm and Home to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2019: 1 reportable incidents · 1 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 0 reportable incidents · 0 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2017: 0 reportable incidents · 0 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Alabama Farmers Cooperative Farm and Home's reported OSHA injury record, strong versus its Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers peers, but not a guarantee about any single site today.
- At 54% of the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers benchmark, Alabama Farmers Cooperative Farm and Home reports fewer injuries than typical peers, still worth asking how safety is managed day to day. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.