Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers · North Carolina

Forshaw Inc

Charlotte, NC · ~64 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Forshaw Inc runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Forshaw Inc: 1.9 TCR = 88% of Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Forshaw Inc safety composite

Forshaw Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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

Forshaw Inc: 0.0 → 3.2 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.55× in 2024

Forshaw Inc's TCR rose 3.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 3.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Charlotte, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 1.9 · 88% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #10/22
  • PHOTO SiteOne Landscape Su…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SiteOne Landscape Supply #186 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Forshaw Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Forshaw Inc averages 1.9 TCR (88% of the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Forshaw Inc TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=3.4 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=1.8 · 2020=5.5 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Forshaw Inc falls in its industry

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchan establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 22 Agricultural chemicals merchan employers in North Carolina.

Forshaw Inc (64 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 Forshaw Inc
Forshaw Inc (64 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Forshaw Inc has more employees than the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesal median and a lower 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
2024 3.2 1.1 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 5.5 3.7 3 0 0
2019 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2018 3.5 1.8 2 0 0
2017 3.4 1.7 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · NC · Charlotte

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 2,058 employers in Charlotte, NC · 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 SiteOne Landscape Supply #186 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Malden 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sparta Cooperative Services 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pennington Seed Distribution - Cullman 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Agrarian Inc 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wilmington Eastern Region Office 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Randolph Electric Membership Corporation 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Apex Operations Center 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1101-Carolinas Medical Center (1101) 8,444 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0001-Carolinas Medical Center 8,032 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4795-AA-CLT-CHARLOTTE-CLT-TRML 7,295 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center 4,973 FTE
NAT-TCR Houston Establishment 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Pilgrim's Pride Processing Plant 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Pratt & Whitney - Columbus Forge Plant 2 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Celina 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sanderson Farms Palestine Hatchery 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Combined Roofing Services LLC 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Field Services 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Florida QCC 64 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, 2018, 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.