Hydroponic crop farming · Arizona

Copperstate Farms

Snowflake, AZ · ~261 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Copperstate Farms runs at 201% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hydroponic crop farming workplace, earning a grade F.

Copperstate Farms: 9.0 TCR = 201% of Hydroponic crop farming BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Copperstate Farms safety composite

Copperstate Farms scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Copperstate Farms: 9.4 → 10.8 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 13.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.95× in 2022

Copperstate Farms's TCR rose 1.4 from 9.4 in 2018 to 10.8 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 13.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111419 · Snowflake, AZ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 201% of ind

  • DART 8.6 DART
  • RANK #13/15
  • PHOTO Tooele
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 75 inj
  • SIZE ~261 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tooele (0.1 TCR gap)

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Copperstate Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Copperstate Farms averages 9.0 TCR (201% of the Hydroponic crop farming BLS benchmark).

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

Copperstate Farms TCR series: 2018=9.4 · 2019=13.4 · 2020=2.4 · 2022=10.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Copperstate Farms falls in its industry

251 Hydroponic crop farming establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 15 Hydroponic crop farming employers in Arizona.

Copperstate Farms (261 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Copperstate Farms
Copperstate Farms (261 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Copperstate Farms has more employees than the Hydroponic crop farming median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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
2022 10.8 8.6 32 2 0
2020 2.4 0.8 8 1 0
2019 13.4 10.9 17 10 0
2018 9.4 9.4 18 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111419 · AZ · Snowflake

251 Hydroponic crop farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 13 employers in Snowflake, AZ · 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 Tooele 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trulieve Ben Bostic 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rocky Mountain Tillage LLC.- Steele 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trulieve Telogia Creek. 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE 4028-AZ000 261 FTE
STATE-SIZE Giants Baseball Complex 261 FTE
STATE-SIZE Desert Diamond Arena 261 FTE
STATE-SIZE Police 261 FTE
CITY-NEAR Copperstate Farms Management LLC 259 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novo Power 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR PFYF FINISHER & TRANS-EST 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARIZONA FINISHER & TRANS-EST 32 FTE
NAT-TCR Liberty Village of Clinton 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1923 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR American Furniture Rental-Dallas 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Corinth Rehabilitation Suites On The Parkway 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0658 - Tracy Ca Whse 261 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0382 - St Peters Mo Whse 261 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1107 - Chicago South Loop Il Whse 261 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0367 - Matthews Nc Whse 261 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: 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.