Garden supplies (e.g., fertilizers, pesticides) merchant wholesalers · Pennsylvania

BFG Supply Co-Cheswick

Cheswick, PA · ~44 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

BFG Supply Co-Cheswick runs at 221% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garden supplies (e.g., fertilizers, pesticides) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

BFG Supply Co-Cheswick: 4.9 TCR = 221% of Garden supplies (e.g., fertilizers, pesticides) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BFG Supply Co-Cheswick safety composite

BFG Supply Co-Cheswick scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

−0.9

2019→2023

BFG Supply Co-Cheswick injury rate improved

BFG Supply Co-Cheswick's TCR fell 0.9 from 8.1 in 2019 to 7.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=8.1 · 2020=2.9 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=7.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Cheswick, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.9 · 221% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #13/15
  • PHOTO MFA Agri Service - G…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MFA Agri Service - Glasgow (0.0 TCR gap)

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BFG Supply Co-Cheswick in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows BFG Supply Co-Cheswick averages 4.9 TCR (221% of the Garden supplies (e.g., fertilizers, pesticides) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

BFG Supply Co-Cheswick TCR series: 2019=8.1 · 2020=2.9 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=7.2 · BLS 2.2

Where BFG Supply Co-Cheswick falls in its industry

1,202 Garden supplies (e.g., fertili establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 15 Garden supplies (e.g., fertili employers in Pennsylvania.

BFG Supply Co-Cheswick (44 employees, TCR 4.9) 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 BFG Supply Co-Cheswick
BFG Supply Co-Cheswick (44 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

BFG Supply Co-Cheswick has more employees than the Garden supplies (e.g., fertilizers, pest 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
2023 7.2 3.6 2 0 0
2022 4.8 3.2 3 0 0
2021 1.4 0.9 3 0 0
2020 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2019 8.1 2.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · PA · Cheswick

1,202 Garden supplies (e.g., fertilizers, pesticides) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 30 employers in Cheswick, PA · 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 MFA Agri Service - Glasgow 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Burlington Fertilizer 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Overton Farmers Co-op 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR JR Simplot Company-SGS Osgood 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Milton Grove Egg 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kreider Farms - Donegal Egg 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE WESSC West Shore Service Center 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE SUNSC Sunbury Service Center 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Curtiss Wright - Cheswick Facility 721 FTE
CITY-NEAR HarmarVillage Care Center 229 FTE
CITY-NEAR Glass Technology Center 219 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harmar Village Care Center 187 FTE
NAT-TCR RK-097-Gainesville ( RK-097 ) 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Princeton Contract Production 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR CFC1 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sysco Hawaii Inc 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Griffith Rubber Mills 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Santoshi Corporation 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tetra Pak Tubex Inc. 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rxr Ny Pm Charlie LLC 44 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.