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
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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.

Buddy's Plant Plus: 2.3 TCR = 68% of Mixing purchased fertilizer materials BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buddy's Plant Plus safety composite

Buddy's Plant Plus scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Buddy's Plant Plus: 0.9 → 3.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 4.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.92× in 2024

Buddy's Plant Plus's TCR rose 2.2 from 0.9 in 2019 to 3.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325314 · Ballinger, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 68% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #8/18
  • PHOTO The Scotts Company -…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 37 inj
  • SIZE ~304 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Scotts Company - Fountain (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buddy's Plant Plus in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buddy's Plant Plus averages 2.3 TCR (68% of the Mixing purchased fertilizer materials BLS benchmark).

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

Buddy's Plant Plus TCR series: 2019=0.9 · 2020=0.5 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=4.1 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Buddy's Plant Plus falls in its industry

163 Mixing purchased fertilizer ma establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

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.

Buddy's Plant Plus (304 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Buddy's Plant Plus
Buddy's Plant Plus (304 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Buddy's Plant Plus has more employees than the Mixing purchased fertilizer materials median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 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

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325314 · TX · Ballinger

163 Mixing purchased fertilizer materials employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 9 employers in Ballinger, TX · 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 The Scotts Company - Fountain 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Scotts Company - Imlay City 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cytozyme Laboratories Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advanced Micronutrient Products 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE C C Carlton Industries 304 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bull Creek Pipelines Services 304 FTE
STATE-SIZE C6313 - Enterprise Frac 14 304 FTE
STATE-SIZE CBI, LLC. Gulf Coast Region 304 FTE
CITY-NEAR 8027202 Buddy s Plants Plus 755 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mueller Inc. (BMC) 352 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ballinger Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ballinger Healthcare and Rehab Center 76 FTE
NAT-TCR D22 Hartford 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Joy Cone Flagstaff 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Landsberg San Diego 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Columbia Sc - 216 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Huntington Memorial Hospital 304 FTE
NAT-SIZE ADESA Los Angeles 304 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cayman Chemical Inc 304 FTE
NAT-SIZE Surgical Referral Service 304 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, 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.