Potting soil manufacturing · South Carolina

FoxFarm Pendleton

Pendleton, SC · ~37 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

FoxFarm Pendleton runs at 150% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Potting soil manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

FoxFarm Pendleton: 5.0 TCR = 150% of Potting soil manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

FoxFarm Pendleton safety composite

FoxFarm Pendleton scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

FoxFarm Pendleton: 2.8 → 7.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.43× in 2024

FoxFarm Pendleton's TCR rose 4.3 from 2.8 in 2023 to 7.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325314 · Pendleton, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 150% of ind

  • DART 7.1 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO Kentucky Fertlizer, …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kentucky Fertlizer, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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FoxFarm Pendleton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows FoxFarm Pendleton averages 5.0 TCR (150% of the Potting soil manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

FoxFarm Pendleton TCR series: 2023=2.8 · 2024=7.1 · BLS 3.3

Where FoxFarm Pendleton falls in its industry

163 Potting soil manufacturing establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Potting soil manufacturing employers in South Carolina.

FoxFarm Pendleton (37 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate FoxFarm Pendleton
FoxFarm Pendleton (37 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.3

FoxFarm Pendleton has fewer employees than the Potting soil manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 7.1 7.1 1 1 0
2023 2.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325314 · SC · Pendleton

163 Potting soil manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 13 employers in Pendleton, SC · 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 Kentucky Fertlizer, LLC 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bulloch Fertilizer Co., Inc. 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Scotts Company - Olivehurst 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Western Organics 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rainey Generating Station 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fleet/Radio (Columbia) 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Storeroom Operations Center (Columbia) 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbia Shelving & Mirror #565 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arthrex Manufacturing South Carolina 492 FTE
CITY-NEAR Milliken & Co - Pendleton Finishing Plant 274 FTE
CITY-NEAR Milliken Pendleton Plant 220 FTE
CITY-NEAR Milliken & Co. Gerrish Plant 165 FTE
NAT-TCR Gerome Manufacturing Company 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR MFM Building Products Corp. 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cargill Meat Solutions 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant 111 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hughes Hardwood International Inc. 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE ABF Freight 071 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Engelman Construction LLC. 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avista Pullman 37 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. 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.