Soybean farming, field and seed production · Indiana

Fischer Seeds

Shelbyville, IN · ~27 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fischer Seeds runs at 120% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Soybean farming, field and seed production workplace, earning a grade D.

Fischer Seeds: 5.4 TCR = 120% of Soybean farming, field and seed production BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fischer Seeds safety composite

Fischer Seeds scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.3

2019→2024

Fischer Seeds injury rate improved

Fischer Seeds's TCR fell 1.3 from 3.9 in 2019 to 2.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 16.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=3.9 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=16.5 · 2022=3.0 · 2023=6.3 · 2024=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111110 · Shelbyville, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 120% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK P29
  • PHOTO Agri-Tech/Grain
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Agri-Tech/Grain (0.3 TCR gap)

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Fischer Seeds in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fischer Seeds averages 5.4 TCR (120% of the Soybean farming, field and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

Fischer Seeds TCR series: 2019=3.9 · 2020=0 · 2021=16.5 · 2022=3 · 2023=6.3 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Fischer Seeds falls in its industry

17 Soybean farming, field and see establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Fischer Seeds (27 employees, TCR 5.4) among 9 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 50 employees and a TCR of 4.9 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 10 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 050100150200250300 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate GDM Seeds, Inc - Gibson City, ILJack Bros., Inc.ViafieldGDM Seeds, IncPacific Tomato Growers, Ltd - Newport TN FarmAgri-Tech/GrainInsight FS - AntigoInsight FS - JeffersonHuntsinger Farms, Inc.Fischer Seeds
Fischer Seeds (27 employees, TCR 5.4) among 9 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 50 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Fischer Seeds has fewer employees than the Soybean farming, field and seed producti median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2023 6.3 0.0 1 0 0
2022 3.0 0.0 1 0 0
2021 16.5 4.1 3 1 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111110 · IN · Shelbyville

17 Soybean farming, field and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 69 employers in Shelbyville, IN · 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 Agri-Tech/Grain 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Illinois Crop Improvement Association, Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR GDM Seeds, Inc - Ankeny, IA 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR GDM Seeds, Inc - Gibson City, IL 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Strauss Feed Mill 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE National Fuel Production of Michigan 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE National Energy of McBain 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE 735-NiSource-Royal Center IN 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Indiana Grand 1,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR HORSESHOE INDIANAPOLIS 877 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ryobi Die Casting (USA) INC 779 FTE
CITY-NEAR Penske : 5076-00 Kroger-DCM/Shelbyville, IN 581 FTE
NAT-TCR S10081 - Charlotte South Hauling 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Engineered Packaging, Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 3D Concrete LLC 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Clinton 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Baymont Inn & Suites - Glendive 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Travelodge - Dexter 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Baymont Inn & Suites - Wellington 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1301-Growout-Live Operations 27 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, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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