Planting machinery and equipment, farm-type, merchant wholesalers · Virginia

Amherst

Amherst, VA · ~280 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Amherst runs at 66% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Planting machinery and equipment, farm-type, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Amherst: 1.5 TCR = 66% of Planting machinery and equipment, farm-type, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Amherst safety composite

Amherst scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Amherst: 0.3 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Amherst's TCR rose 4.7 from 0.3 in 2021 to 5.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423820 · Amherst, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.5 · 66% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/12
  • PHOTO OCALA TRACTOR LLC - …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~280 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OCALA TRACTOR LLC - MAIN LOCATION (0.0 TCR gap)

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Amherst in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Amherst averages 1.5 TCR (66% of the Planting machinery and equipment, farm-type, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Amherst TCR series: 2021=0.3 · 2022=0.3 · 2023=0.3 · 2024=5 · BLS 2.2

Where Amherst falls in its industry

700 Planting machinery and equipme establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 12 Planting machinery and equipme employers in Virginia.

Amherst (280 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Amherst
Amherst (280 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Amherst has more employees than the Planting machinery and equipment, farm-t median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 5.0 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.3 0.3 1 0 0
2022 0.3 0.3 1 0 0
2021 0.3 0.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · VA · Amherst

700 Planting machinery and equipment, farm-type, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 12 employers in Amherst, VA · 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 OCALA TRACTOR LLC - MAIN LOCATION 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Melnor, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sidney 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fort Dodge Location 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Essel Propack America, LLC 280 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2705 280 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4638 280 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0239 - WINCHESTER VA WHSE 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMHERST COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS 843 FTE
CITY-NEAR Glad Mfg 363 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amherst SNF Operation LLC 191 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buffalo Air Handling 110 FTE
NAT-TCR KW International, Inc. (2100-Duluth-GA) 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Precision Metal Products Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR TGR Enterprises, Inc 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Emerald Coast Truss LLC 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cabinetworks Group 280 FTE
NAT-SIZE Guy M. Turner, Inc. 280 FTE
NAT-SIZE 194 - DET Nashville 280 FTE
NAT-SIZE Haynes Family of Programs 280 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, 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.