Plug (i.e., floriculture products) growing · Virginia

Bloomaker USA

Waynesboro, VA · ~50 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bloomaker USA runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Plug (i.e., floriculture products) growing workplace, earning a grade D.

Bloomaker USA: 5.9 TCR = 130% of Plug (i.e., floriculture products) growing BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bloomaker USA safety composite

Bloomaker USA scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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

−4.7

2016→2017

Bloomaker USA injury rate improved

Bloomaker USA's TCR fell 4.7 from 8.2 in 2016 to 3.5 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.2 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.2 · 2017=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111422 · Waynesboro, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 130% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO Walters Gardens Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Walters Gardens Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bloomaker USA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bloomaker USA averages 5.9 TCR (130% of the Plug (i.e., floriculture products) growing BLS benchmark).

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

Bloomaker USA TCR series: 2016=8.2 · 2017=3.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Bloomaker USA falls in its industry

166 Plug (i.e., floriculture produ establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Plug (i.e., floriculture produ employers in Virginia.

Bloomaker USA (50 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 01,0002,0003,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Bloomaker USA
Bloomaker USA (50 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Bloomaker USA has fewer employees than the Plug (i.e., floriculture products) growi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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
2017 3.5 1.8 1 1 0
2016 8.2 2.0 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111422 · VA · Waynesboro

166 Plug (i.e., floriculture products) growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 60 employers in Waynesboro, 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 Walters Gardens Inc 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR JASON'S GREENHOUSE, INC. 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Costa Carolina Operations, LLC 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Luurtsema Sales Inc. 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Live Turkey - Dayton VA Hatchery 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chase City 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glade Spring Service Center 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Piedmont Plaster & Drywall 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5117 369 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5117 366 FTE
CITY-NEAR Virginia Panel Corporation 192 FTE
CITY-NEAR BERRYWAVA 183 FTE
NAT-TCR EOS Fitness - Las Vegas South 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Masda Mushroom LLC 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hydro Resources, MDC Garden City 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 734 - Deer Park 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE N and R of Camdenton Inc 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of California Inc 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE 06- Knoxville, TN 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE AmeriGas - Ft. Lauderdale, FL 50 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: 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.