Phosphatic fertilizers made by mixing purchased materials · Kentucky

Easy Gardener Products, Inc./Jobe's Company

Paris, KY · ~43 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Easy Gardener Products, Inc./Jobe's Company runs at 160% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Phosphatic fertilizers made by mixing purchased materials workplace, earning a grade D.

Easy Gardener Products, Inc./Jobe's Company: 5.3 TCR = 160% of Phosphatic fertilizers made by mixing purchased materials BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Easy Gardener Products, Inc./Jobe's Company safety composite

Easy Gardener Products, Inc./Jobe's Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

Easy Gardener Products, Inc./Jobe's Company: 4.3 → 6.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Easy Gardener Products, Inc./Jobe's Company's TCR rose 2.0 from 4.3 in 2023 to 6.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325314 · Paris, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 160% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO Lake Placid
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lake Placid (0.0 TCR gap)

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Easy Gardener Products, Inc./Jobe's Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Easy Gardener Products, Inc./Jobe's Company averages 5.3 TCR (160% of the Phosphatic fertilizers made by mixing purchased materials BLS benchmark).

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

Easy Gardener Products, Inc./Jobe's Company TCR series: 2023=4.3 · 2024=6.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Easy Gardener Products, Inc./Jobe's Company falls in its industry

163 Phosphatic fertilizers made by establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Phosphatic fertilizers made by employers in Kentucky.

Easy Gardener Products, Inc./Jobe's Company (43 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Easy Gardener Products, Inc./Jobe's Company
Easy Gardener Products, Inc./Jobe's Company (43 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Easy Gardener Products, Inc./Jobe's Company has more employees than the Phosphatic fertilizers made by mixing pu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 6.3 0.0 2 0 0
2023 4.3 2.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325314 · KY · Paris

163 Phosphatic fertilizers made by mixing purchased materials employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 31 employers in Paris, KY · 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 Lake Placid 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bruce Oakley, Inc.- Trucking Division Shop and Wash Bay 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ontario Facility - 02 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jobe's Company Fertilizer Facility 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cedar Creek WQTP 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hinkle Environmental Services, LLC 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Swift Roofing of E'town, Inc 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE D & M Electric Inc 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR Central Motor Wheel of America 711 FTE
CITY-NEAR Central Motor Wheel of America dba CMWA 556 FTE
CITY-NEAR 493 278 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 493 276 FTE
NAT-TCR Homestead Village, Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Muskegon Surgery Center 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Gonzalez Ag, Inc 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Wild Palms Hotel 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE FV Clinics-New Brighton 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Residence Inn Portland Downtown Riverplace 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sdbro - Brookings 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lebanon TN Truss 43 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.