Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed · Florida

B&W Quality Growers - Main Office

Fellsmere, FL · ~274 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

B&W Quality Growers - Main Office runs at 191% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed workplace, earning a grade D.

B&W Quality Growers - Main Office: 8.6 TCR = 191% of Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

B&W Quality Growers - Main Office safety composite

B&W Quality Growers - Main Office scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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).

F

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

B&W Quality Growers - Main Office: 9.0 → 9.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 9.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.92× in 2021

B&W Quality Growers - Main Office's TCR rose 0.7 from 9.0 in 2018 to 9.7 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111219 · Fellsmere, FL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.6 · 191% of ind

  • DART 7.9 DART
  • RANK #27/37
  • PHOTO J.H. MEEK & SONS INC.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 95 inj
  • SIZE ~274 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: J.H. MEEK & SONS INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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B&W Quality Growers - Main Office in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows B&W Quality Growers - Main Office averages 8.6 TCR (191% of the Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed BLS benchmark).

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

B&W Quality Growers - Main Office TCR series: 2018=9 · 2019=9 · 2020=6.7 · 2021=9.7 · BLS 4.5

Where B&W Quality Growers - Main Office falls in its industry

331 Vegetable and melon farming, v establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 37 Vegetable and melon farming, v employers in Florida.

B&W Quality Growers - Main Office (274 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate B&W Quality Growers - Main Office
B&W Quality Growers - Main Office (274 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

B&W Quality Growers - Main Office has more employees than the Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable ( 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
2021 9.7 7.9 25 1 0
2020 6.7 5.5 17 0 0
2019 9.0 8.6 23 0 0
2018 9.0 5.7 30 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · FL · Fellsmere

331 Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 5 employers in Fellsmere, FL · 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 J.H. MEEK & SONS INC. 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Illinois Foundation Seed Inc- Harvard 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midnight Harvest 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MFarms 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE PCL Construction Services, Inc. 274 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1500 W University 274 FTE
STATE-SIZE 811 274 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 3877 274 FTE
CITY-NEAR Egan Fruit Packing LLC 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR HGC Framing, LLC 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sun Ag LLC 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Store 2429 21 FTE
NAT-TCR Sutter Care at Home (247-SL) 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Johnson Tractor Rochelle 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Paris Save A Lot 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 1103 - Bucks County Pa Whse 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bishop Wicke Health and Rehabilitation Center 274 FTE
NAT-SIZE KFOC-Office 274 FTE
NAT-SIZE Screen Spe USA 274 FTE
NAT-SIZE Statesville # 9285 274 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.