Grass seed farming · Oregon

Golden Valley Farms

Silverton, OR · ~91 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Golden Valley Farms runs at 110% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Grass seed farming workplace, earning a grade C.

Golden Valley Farms: 5.0 TCR = 110% of Grass seed farming BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Golden Valley Farms safety composite

Golden Valley Farms scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

Golden Valley Farms: 1.1 → 6.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.57× in 2024

Golden Valley Farms's TCR rose 5.5 from 1.1 in 2016 to 6.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111998 · Silverton, OR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.0 · 110% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #14/19
  • PHOTO MARQUART BROS, LLC
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~91 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MARQUART BROS, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Golden Valley Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Golden Valley Farms averages 5.0 TCR (110% of the Grass seed farming BLS benchmark).

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

Golden Valley Farms TCR series: 2016=1.1 · 2017=5.3 · 2018=5 · 2020=7.7 · 2021=4.8 · 2022=4.1 · 2024=6.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Golden Valley Farms falls in its industry

128 Grass seed farming establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 19 Grass seed farming employers in Oregon.

Golden Valley Farms (91 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 64 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Golden Valley Farms
Golden Valley Farms (91 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 64 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Golden Valley Farms has more employees than the Grass seed farming median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 6.6 2.8 7 0 0
2022 4.1 1.0 4 0 0
2021 4.8 1.0 5 0 0
2020 7.7 1.9 8 0 0
2018 5.0 3.0 5 0 0
2017 5.3 0.0 5 0 0
2016 1.1 1.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111998 · OR · Silverton

128 Grass seed farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 25 employers in Silverton, 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 MARQUART BROS, LLC 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Goodness Gardens Inc 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR AGMART NEW JERSEY 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roth Farms, Inc 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hayden Homes 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Division #11 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wildish Construction Co. 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Integrity Painting, Inc 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6994-SI 649 FTE
CITY-NEAR 500 648 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6994-PL500 641 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sinn Farms, Inc 270 FTE
NAT-TCR Saver Group,Inc dba Paris Save-A-Lot 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR ATLANTA 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Yuba City Corporation Yard 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Louis Mo - 227 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Marshall Middle School 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE 81-Usf-Olf Newnan Sports Club 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tech Painting Company, Inc 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amcor Flexibles Yuba City 91 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.