Farm supply stores · Nevada

Big R Sparks

Sparks, NV · ~34 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big R Sparks runs at 60% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Farm supply stores workplace, earning a grade B.

Big R Sparks: 2.0 TCR = 60% of Farm supply stores BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big R Sparks safety composite

Big R Sparks scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

C

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 2.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Big R Sparks: 0.0 → 8.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.2 TCR · DART/TCR 4× in 2024

Big R Sparks's TCR rose 8.2 from 0.0 in 2021 to 8.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444220 · Sparks, NV AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 60% of ind

  • DART 8.2 DART
  • RANK P92
  • PHOTO Berns Garden Center
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Berns Garden Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big R Sparks in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big R Sparks averages 2.0 TCR (60% of the Farm supply stores BLS benchmark).

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

Big R Sparks TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=8.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Big R Sparks falls in its industry

642 Farm supply stores establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Big R Sparks (34 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Big R Sparks
Big R Sparks (34 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Big R Sparks has fewer employees than the Farm supply stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. 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 8.2 8.2 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · NV · Sparks

642 Farm supply stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,574 rated employers in Nevada with headcount on file · 321 employers in Sparks, NV · 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 Berns Garden Center 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stein's Garden & Home West Bend 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Race Brothers Farm & Home Supply 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rohr and Sons Nursery Inc. 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE NV Energy-Clark 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE T & V Plaster, Incorporated 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bearden Plastering Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tepcoglass LLC Las Vegas 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-NV-Sparks-1-Electric Ave 7,992 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-NV-Sparks-Electric Avenue 7,272 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-NV-Sparks-Electric Avenue-Gigafactory 2,822 FTE
CITY-NEAR NVRNO - RENO HUB 1,324 FTE
NAT-TCR Versatrans, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Impact Fire - Greensboro Blackstone 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Anaheim West Tower 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 048 - Wilder Rd Bay City 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Warwick Store 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hero Logistics West Virginia Plant 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Constellation Hospice PA, LLC 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Action Label LLC 34 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.