Herb farming, open field · Arizona

Elephant Head Farms

Amado, AZ · ~105 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Elephant Head Farms runs at 258% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Herb farming, open field workplace, earning a grade F.

Elephant Head Farms: 11.6 TCR = 258% of Herb farming, open field BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Elephant Head Farms safety composite

Elephant Head Farms scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Elephant Head Farms: 9.0 → 14.2 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 14.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.82× in 2022

Elephant Head Farms's TCR rose 5.3 from 9.0 in 2021 to 14.2 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111998 · Amado, AZ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.6 · 258% of ind

  • DART 9.5 DART
  • RANK P7
  • PHOTO Lothian, MD
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~105 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lothian, MD (0.0 TCR gap)

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Elephant Head Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Elephant Head Farms averages 11.6 TCR (258% of the Herb farming, open field BLS benchmark).

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

Elephant Head Farms TCR series: 2021=9 · 2022=14.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Elephant Head Farms falls in its industry

128 Herb farming, open field establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Elephant Head Farms (105 employees, TCR 11.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 64 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 Elephant Head Farms
Elephant Head Farms (105 employees, TCR 11.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 64 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Elephant Head Farms has more employees than the Herb farming, open field median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 14.2 9.5 3 0 0
2021 9.0 2.2 6 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111998 · AZ · Amado

128 Herb farming, open field employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 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 Lothian, MD 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Perrault Farms, Inc. 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amana Farms, Inc. 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Goschie Farms 11.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hillphoenix AMS Phoenix 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tohono O O'dham Utility Authority 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE J. Banicki Construction, Inc. (Div of Sterling Construction) 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Klark Organization I, LLC 105 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wholesum Farms Arizona 129 FTE
NAT-TCR HG239 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 4054-ABS-0017-0016-00002 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 324590-Littleton Po 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 117515-Pinellas Park Po 11.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE San Diego 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blue Ridge Log Cabins LLC 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tops #435 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tops #429 105 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, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.