Chemicals, agricultural, merchant wholesalers · Tennessee

Bedford Farmers Co-op

Shelbyville, TN · ~24 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bedford Farmers Co-op runs at 319% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Chemicals, agricultural, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Bedford Farmers Co-op: 7.0 TCR = 319% of Chemicals, agricultural, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bedford Farmers Co-op safety composite

Bedford Farmers Co-op scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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).

D

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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%).

TCR Δ

−8.7

2016→2022

Bedford Farmers Co-op injury rate improved

Bedford Farmers Co-op's TCR fell 8.7 from 8.7 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 13.9 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.7 · 2017=12.0 · 2018=13.9 · 2019=5.3 · 2020=9.1 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 319% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #53/59
  • PHOTO DuPont Pioneer Johns…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DuPont Pioneer Johnston Campus - JH32 Mendel (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bedford Farmers Co-op in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bedford Farmers Co-op averages 7.0 TCR (319% of the Chemicals, agricultural, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Bedford Farmers Co-op TCR series: 2016=8.7 · 2017=12 · 2018=13.9 · 2019=5.3 · 2020=9.1 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Bedford Farmers Co-op falls in its industry

1,202 Chemicals, agricultural, merch establishments

Safer than 18% 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 #53 safest of 59 Chemicals, agricultural, merch employers in Tennessee.

Bedford Farmers Co-op (24 employees, TCR 7.0) 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 Bedford Farmers Co-op
Bedford Farmers Co-op (24 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Bedford Farmers Co-op has fewer employees than the Chemicals, agricultural, merchant wholes 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 9.1 9.1 2 0 0
2019 5.3 5.3 1 0 0
2018 13.9 13.9 3 0 0
2017 12.0 6.0 2 0 0
2016 8.7 4.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · TN · Shelbyville

1,202 Chemicals, agricultural, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 56 employers in Shelbyville, 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 DuPont Pioneer Johnston Campus - JH32 Mendel 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ag1 Farmers Co-op 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SGS Retail - Halsey 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Office - 01 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE RIVERSIDE FUQUA FARMS LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod USA - Nashville Sod Farm 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Warren-Viola Utility District 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE JOB 268BG Rutherford County 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shelbyville Plant 1,399 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bedford County Board of Education 1,034 FTE
CITY-NEAR BIG G EXPRESS INC 623 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6062 588 FTE
NAT-TCR Ashley HomeStore 42 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookside Lumber 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Westminster Bradenton Manor 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Driscoll Electric Co., Inc. 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gavilon Grain - Rock Port 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gavilon Grain - Carrollton 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gavilon Grain - Benkelman 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE IL - Elk Grove 24 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.