Farm supplies merchant wholesalers · Ohio

Central Farm & Garden

Wooster, OH · ~50 workers · 5 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

Central Farm & Garden runs at 165% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Farm supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Central Farm & Garden: 3.6 TCR = 165% of Farm supplies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Central Farm & Garden safety composite

Central Farm & Garden 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 3.64 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.5

2016→2023

Central Farm & Garden injury rate improved

Central Farm & Garden's TCR fell 1.5 from 6.0 in 2016 to 4.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=4.2 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Wooster, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.6 · 165% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #24/35
  • PHOTO Sunrise Cooperative …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sunrise Cooperative - Crestline (0.0 TCR gap)

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Central Farm & Garden in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Central Farm & Garden averages 3.6 TCR (165% of the Farm supplies merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Central Farm & Garden TCR series: 2016=6 · 2020=0 · 2021=4.2 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=4.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Central Farm & Garden falls in its industry

1,202 Farm supplies merchant wholesa establishments

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

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 35 Farm supplies merchant wholesa employers in Ohio.

Central Farm & Garden (50 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 Central Farm & Garden
Central Farm & Garden (50 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Central Farm & Garden has more employees than the Farm supplies merchant wholesalers 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
2023 4.5 0.0 2 0 0
2022 3.5 0.0 2 0 0
2021 4.2 2.1 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 6.0 3.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · OH · Wooster

1,202 Farm supplies merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 133 employers in Wooster, OH · 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 Sunrise Cooperative - Crestline 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SiteOne Landscape Supply #329 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Verdegaal Brothers, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mt. Sterling 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Columbia Care Ohio LLC 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rossburg 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE B & D Water Inc. 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbus SE Svc Ctr 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Scaheffler Transmissions LLC 1,907 FTE
CITY-NEAR LuK USA LLC 1,814 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schaeffler Transmission LLC 1,662 FTE
CITY-NEAR College of Wooster 771 FTE
NAT-TCR Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, Hutchinson KS 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Agrace Hospice/Dane County 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR TLC Building Components, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Blachford Corporation 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Waters on 50th 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alexandria Hyundai 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1196-Courtyard/Residence Richmond 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Western Dairy Transport-Hyrum 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2016. 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.