Mixing purchased fertilizer materials · Texas

Buddy's Plant Plus

Ballinger, TX · ~304 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Buddy's Plant Plus runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Mixing purchased fertilizer materials workplace, earning a grade B.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
avg TCR · per 100 workers
3.3
industry benchmark (BLS)
37
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Buddy's Plant Plus's OSHA Total Case Rate of 2.3 to the Mixing purchased fertilizer materials BLS benchmark of 3.3 (68% of benchmark) across 6 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

Buddy's Plant Plus's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.

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Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 325314.

Where Buddy's Plant Plus falls in its industry

184 Mixing purchased fertilizer ma establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 18 Mixing purchased fertilizer ma employers in Texas.

Trend analysis for Buddy's Plant Plus

Between 2019 and 2024, Buddy's Plant Plus's Total Case Rate worsened from 0.9 to 3.1 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 243% increase across 5 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2020, at a TCR of 0.5, while 2022 saw the highest rate, at 4.1, a spread of 3.6 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 6 reporting years, Buddy's Plant Plus recorded 37 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 6-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 37 injuries shown on this page for Buddy's Plant Plus are sourced from its own 6 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 325314 - Mixing purchased fertilizer materials.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

2 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 194,383 hours worked = 2.06 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Buddy's Plant Plus (this establishment) 2.25 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 6-year avg
Mixing purchased fertilizer materials industry avg 3.30 BLS IIF, NAICS 325314
Texas state avg (all industries) 3.73 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Buddy's Plant Plus to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 3.1 2.1 3 0 0
2023 2.6 2.2 6 0 0
2022 4.1 2.8 13 0 0
2021 2.4 2.4 10 0 0
2020 0.5 0.0 2 0 0
2019 0.9 0.6 3 0 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Buddy's Plant Plus's reported OSHA injury record, strong versus its Mixing purchased fertilizer materials peers, but not a guarantee about any single site today.

  • At 68% of the Mixing purchased fertilizer materials benchmark, Buddy's Plant Plus reports fewer injuries than typical peers, still worth asking how safety is managed day to day. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Mixing purchased fertilizer materials sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Buddy's Plant Plus's safety grade?
Buddy's Plant Plus has a safety grade of B (Good Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 2.3 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 3.3 for Mixing purchased fertilizer materials.
How many injuries has Buddy's Plant Plus reported?
Buddy's Plant Plus has reported 37 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 6 years of OSHA data (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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, 2020, 2019. 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. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.