Garden supplies (e.g., fertilizers, pesticides) merchant wholesalers · Tennessee

First Farmers/Henderson Location

Name: First Farmers/Henderson Location Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Lexington, TN · ~24 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 12.4
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

First Farmers/Henderson Location runs at 565% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garden supplies (e.g., fertilizers, pesticides) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

First Farmers/Henderson Location: 12.4 TCR = 565% of Garden supplies (e.g., fertilizers, pesticides) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Farmers/Henderson Location safety composite

First Farmers/Henderson Location scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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).

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 12.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers
DART rate: F 6.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

First Farmers/Henderson Location: 12.2 → 12.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 12.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.51× in 2017

First Farmers/Henderson Location's TCR rose 0.5 from 12.2 in 2016 to 12.7 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Lexington, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.4 · 565% of ind

DART 6.3 DART
RANK #59/59
PHOTO Greenview
BOOK 2y book
INJ 4 inj
SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Greenview (0.0 TCR gap)

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12.5
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12.4
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12.4
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12.4
Marion Office

12.4

What this shows First Farmers/Henderson Location averages 12.4 TCR (565% of the Garden supplies (e.g., fertilizers, pesticides) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

First Farmers/Henderson Location TCR series: 2016=12.2 · 2017=12.7 · BLS 2.2

Where First Farmers/Henderson Location falls in its industry

1,202 Garden supplies (e.g., fertili establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #59 safest of 59 Garden supplies (e.g., fertili employers in Tennessee.

First Farmers/Henderson Location (24 employees, TCR 12.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

First Farmers/Henderson Location has fewer employees than the Garden supplies (e.g., fertilizers, pest median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2017	12.7	6.3	2	0	0
2016	12.2	6.1	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · TN · Lexington

1,202 Garden supplies (e.g., fertilizers, pesticides) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 35 employers in Lexington, TN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Greenview	GREENVIEW, IL	12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Bomgaars Supply,Inc. - Burlington CO	BURLINGTON, CO	12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Chico, CA	CHICO, CA	12.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Marion Office	MARION, OH	12.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	RIVERSIDE FUQUA FARMS LLC	SPRINGFIELD	24 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Buy Sod USA - Nashville Sod Farm	EAGLEVILLE	24 FTE
STATE-SIZE	West Warren-Viola Utility District	MORRISON	24 FTE
STATE-SIZE	JOB 268BG Rutherford County	MURFREESBORO	24 FTE
CITY-NEAR	9722	Lexington	502 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Adient	Lexington	352 FTE
CITY-NEAR	FRS	Lexington	334 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 684	Lexington	330 FTE
NAT-TCR	Al46-446-Westchester Villa	Tempe, AZ	12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Wingate at Worcester	Worcester, MA	12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Cypress Palms - Resort	Kissimmee, FL	12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Careplus Ambulance	Merrimack, NH	12.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Allied Mineral Products - Anniston	Anniston, AL	24 FTE
NAT-SIZE	AEM	North Canton, OH	24 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Ammon Nursery	Burlington, KY	24 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Quality Inn & Suites	Sioux Falls, SD	24 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: 2017, 2016. 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.