Bedding plant growing (except vegetable and melon bedding plants) · Oregon
Fessler Nursery Company
Woodburn, OR · ~49 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 8.4
- Avg TCR
- 4.5
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Fessler Nursery Company runs at 187% 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.
Fessler Nursery Company: 8.4 TCR = 187% of Bedding plant growing (except vegetable and melon bedding plants) BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)
Fessler Nursery Company safety composite
Fessler Nursery Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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).
25/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Total Case Rate (TCR)
- F 8.42 per 100 workers
Safer than 25% of industry peers
- DART rate
- F 9.62 per 100 workers
Safer than 5% 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
Fessler Nursery Company: 3.5 → 9.6 TCR
Peak year 2022 @ 10.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.14× in 2023
Fessler Nursery Company's TCR rose 6.1 from 3.5 in 2019 to 9.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 10.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).
OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard
Establishment book 111422 · Woodburn, OR ABOVE-IND · SMALL
Grade D · TCR 8.4 · 187% of ind
- DART 9.6 DART
- RANK #11/15
- PHOTO Teufel Holly Farms
- BOOK 5y book
- INJ 24 inj
- SIZE ~49 FTE
Nearest TCR peer: Teufel Holly Farms (0.1 TCR gap)
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Fessler Nursery Company in the TCR neighbourhood
Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers
- KG Farms, Inc.
KG Farms, Inc.
8.6 TCR
- DS Cole Grower
DS Cole Growers Inc.
8.6 TCR
- This site
Fessler Nursery Company
8.4 TCR
- Teufel Holly F
Teufel Holly Farms
8.3 TCR
- River Ridge Fa
River Ridge Farms
8.3 TCR
What this shows Fessler Nursery Company averages 8.4 TCR (187% of the Bedding plant growing (except vegetable and melon bedding plants) BLS benchmark).
Fessler Nursery Company TCR series: 2019=3.5 · 2020=9.6 · 2021=8.4 · 2022=10.9 · 2023=9.6 · BLS 4.5
Where Fessler Nursery Company falls in its industry
166 Bedding plant growing (except establishmentsSafer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.
Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 15 Bedding plant growing (except employers in Oregon.
Fessler Nursery Company 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 9.6 | 9.6 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022 | 10.9 | 5.5 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 8.4 | 5.6 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 9.6 | 4.8 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
OSHA ITA peer cross-reference
Establishment peer ledger
111422 · OR · Woodburn
166 Bedding plant growing (except vegetable and melon bedding plants) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 76 employers in Woodburn, OR · 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 | Teufel Holly Farms | 8.3 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | KG Farms, Inc. | 8.6 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | River Ridge Farms | 8.3 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | DS Cole Growers Inc. | 8.6 TCR |
| STATE-SIZE | Polehn Farms Inc | 49 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | UNIVERSAL SEED LLC | 49 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Sunnyview (Shared Services + MVS Admin + Warehouse) | 49 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Pennington Seed - Seed Processing Lebanon | 49 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Woodburn DC #092 | 510 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | US Foods Portland | 486 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | MacLaren | 468 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | WOODBURN - D/C #092 | 454 FTE |
| NAT-TCR | Power House Plastering Inc | 8.4 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Ced - Greentech (5621) | 8.4 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Theisen's of Newton | 8.4 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Cougar Run I | 8.4 TCR |
| NAT-SIZE | ISD #701 District Wide | 49 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Mangum Brick | 49 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Bio-Gro, Inc. | 49 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | 260 Columbia (Irmo) | 49 FTE |
Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.