Hydroponic crop farming · Ohio

Great Lakes Growers LLC

Burton, OH · ~41 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Great Lakes Growers LLC runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Hydroponic crop farming workplace, earning a grade B.

Great Lakes Growers LLC: 2.5 TCR = 55% of Hydroponic crop farming BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Great Lakes Growers LLC safety composite

Great Lakes Growers LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 49%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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

−6.9

2017→2024

Great Lakes Growers LLC injury rate improved

Great Lakes Growers LLC's TCR fell 6.9 from 9.2 in 2017 to 2.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=9.2 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2024=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111419 · Burton, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 55% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #2/10
  • PHOTO Medicine Man
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Medicine Man (0.1 TCR gap)

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Great Lakes Growers LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Great Lakes Growers LLC averages 2.5 TCR (55% of the Hydroponic crop farming BLS benchmark).

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

Great Lakes Growers LLC TCR series: 2017=9.2 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Great Lakes Growers LLC falls in its industry

251 Hydroponic crop farming establishments

Safer than 82% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 10 Hydroponic crop farming employers in Ohio.

Great Lakes Growers LLC (41 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Great Lakes Growers LLC
Great Lakes Growers LLC (41 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Great Lakes Growers LLC has fewer employees than the Hydroponic crop farming median and a lower 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 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2017 9.2 9.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111419 · OH · Burton

251 Hydroponic crop farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 10 employers in Burton, OH · 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 Medicine Man 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sungrow East LLC (formerly known as Intergrow East) 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbia Care Delaware LLC.-Milford 1 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Story of PA- Smithfield (AWH) 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hoover Gardens & Gifts 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Loadout Building 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harrison Hub FRAC 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Consolidated Electric Cooperative, Inc. (Mount Gilead facility) 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR HEXPOL Compounding LLC 243 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hexpol Compounding LLC - Burton, OH 221 FTE
CITY-NEAR BFG Supply Co-Burton 182 FTE
CITY-NEAR Burton Health Care Center 82 FTE
NAT-TCR District Wide - Mail Out 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Elementary School 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Las Vegas Paving Corp 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR LifeCare@HOME 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2676 S. 26th St 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Usibelli Vineyards, Inc. 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE East Coast Steel Inc. 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meeker Cooperative Light & Power Association 41 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.