Fertilizer and fertilizer materials merchant wholesalers · California

Buttonwillow Warehouse - Applicator / Service Facility

Buttonwillow, CA · ~25 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buttonwillow Warehouse - Applicator / Service Facility runs at 163% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fertilizer and fertilizer materials merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Buttonwillow Warehouse - Applicator / Service Facility: 3.6 TCR = 163% of Fertilizer and fertilizer materials merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buttonwillow Warehouse - Applicator / Service Facility safety composite

Buttonwillow Warehouse - Applicator / Service Facility scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 49%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

Buttonwillow Warehouse - Applicator / Service Facility: 3.2 → 6.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Buttonwillow Warehouse - Applicator / Service Facility's TCR rose 2.9 from 3.2 in 2017 to 6.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Buttonwillow, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.6 · 163% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #76/136
  • PHOTO Marengo
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Marengo (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buttonwillow Warehouse - Applicator / Service Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buttonwillow Warehouse - Applicator / Service Facility averages 3.6 TCR (163% of the Fertilizer and fertilizer materials merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Buttonwillow Warehouse - Applicator / Service Facility TCR series: 2017=3.2 · 2018=6 · 2019=0 · 2022=6.1 · 2023=0 · 2024=6.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Buttonwillow Warehouse - Applicator / Service Facility falls in its industry

1,202 Fertilizer and fertilizer mate establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #76 safest of 136 Fertilizer and fertilizer mate employers in California.

Buttonwillow Warehouse - Applicator / Service Facility (25 employees, TCR 3.6) 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 Buttonwillow Warehouse - Applicator / Service Facility
Buttonwillow Warehouse - Applicator / Service Facility (25 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Buttonwillow Warehouse - Applicator / Service Facility has fewer employees than the Fertilizer and fertilizer materials merc 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
2024 6.1 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 6.1 6.1 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 6.0 0.0 1 0 0
2017 3.2 3.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · CA · Buttonwillow

1,202 Fertilizer and fertilizer materials merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 13 employers in Buttonwillow, CA · 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 Marengo 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR BB & P Feed & Grain, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR AGRI-FEED, INC. 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR M&M Service Company - Carlinville Office 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Conservation Farms Ranches 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE GM Ag Services, Inc. 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farm Shop 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dougherty Brothers 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reyes Contracting Inc 156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sandridge Partners,LP 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goyenetche Dairy LLC 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southern Cross Dairy 45 FTE
NAT-TCR USA IL Rockford Technology Drive Plant 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Building & Rental Srvs 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Advance Services, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Tabco 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Janesville Headquarters 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE All Weather Temperature Control, Inc. 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ptcr Tampa 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE HICKORY 25 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.