Bedding plant growing (except vegetable and melon bedding plants) · New Hampshire

DS Cole Growers Inc.

Loudon, NH · ~57 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

DS Cole Growers Inc. runs at 191% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bedding plant growing (except vegetable and melon bedding plants) workplace, earning a grade D.

DS Cole Growers Inc.: 8.6 TCR = 191% of Bedding plant growing (except vegetable and melon bedding plants) BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DS Cole Growers Inc. safety composite

DS Cole Growers Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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).

D

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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

DS Cole Growers Inc.: 7.3 → 13.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 13.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.43× in 2024

DS Cole Growers Inc.'s TCR rose 5.8 from 7.3 in 2021 to 13.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111422 · Loudon, NH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.6 · 191% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK P23
  • PHOTO KG Farms, Inc.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: KG Farms, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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DS Cole Growers Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DS Cole Growers Inc. averages 8.6 TCR (191% of the Bedding plant growing (except vegetable and melon bedding plants) BLS benchmark).

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

DS Cole Growers Inc. TCR series: 2021=7.3 · 2022=10.1 · 2023=4 · 2024=13.1 · BLS 4.5

Where DS Cole Growers Inc. falls in its industry

166 Bedding plant growing (except establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
DS Cole Growers Inc. (57 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 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 01,0002,0003,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate DS Cole Growers Inc.
DS Cole Growers Inc. (57 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.5

DS Cole Growers Inc. has fewer employees than the Bedding plant growing (except 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
2024 13.1 3.7 7 0 0
2023 4.0 4.0 2 0 0
2022 10.1 8.1 5 0 0
2021 7.3 7.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111422 · NH · Loudon

166 Bedding plant growing (except vegetable and melon bedding plants) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,718 rated employers in New Hampshire with headcount on file · 6 employers in Loudon, NH · 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 KG Farms, Inc. 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Masterpiece Flower Company LLC - Merchandising (OH) 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fessler Nursery Company 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Teufel Holly Farms 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Home Improvement Company of Vermont 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Latva Machine 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maxcess - Tidland Keene NH 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Accurate Brazing Corporation 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pleasant View Gardens 173 FTE
CITY-NEAR F.L. Merrill Construction, Inc. 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Loudon, NH 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern Design Precast 33 FTE
NAT-TCR Brookdale Greenville 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Gulfstream AFW 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Leahy's Fuels, Inc. 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Kerex Engineering, Inc. 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Equipment Depot Texas, Inc. - Waco 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harwood Elementary School 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE S San Francisco - Shaw California 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE K and Z Distributing LLC 57 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.