Alfalfa hay farming · Arizona

H Four Farms III

Buckeye, AZ · ~40 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

H Four Farms III runs at 147% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Alfalfa hay farming workplace, earning a grade D.

H Four Farms III: 6.6 TCR = 147% of Alfalfa hay farming BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

H Four Farms III safety composite

H Four Farms III scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

H Four Farms III: 4.1 → 8.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 12.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.44× in 2024

H Four Farms III's TCR rose 4.6 from 4.1 in 2016 to 8.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 12.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111940 · Buckeye, AZ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 147% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #8/8
  • PHOTO 518 Farming, Inc
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 518 Farming, Inc (0.8 TCR gap)

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H Four Farms III in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows H Four Farms III averages 6.6 TCR (147% of the Alfalfa hay farming BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

H Four Farms III TCR series: 2016=4.1 · 2017=6.2 · 2018=3.1 · 2019=9.6 · 2020=3.2 · 2021=12.1 · 2022=6.4 · 2023=6.2 · 2024=8.7 · BLS 4.5

Where H Four Farms III falls in its industry

31 Alfalfa hay farming establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 8 Alfalfa hay farming employers in Arizona.

H Four Farms III (40 employees, TCR 6.6) among 13 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.2 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 14 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 050100150 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate H Four Farms III
H Four Farms III (40 employees, TCR 6.6) among 13 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.2

H Four Farms III has fewer employees than the Alfalfa hay farming median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 8.7 2.9 6 0 0
2023 6.2 1.5 4 0 0
2022 6.4 4.8 4 0 0
2021 12.1 5.2 5 2 0
2020 3.2 0.0 2 0 0
2019 9.6 3.2 6 0 0
2018 3.1 1.5 2 0 0
2017 6.2 1.6 4 0 0
2016 4.1 2.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111940 · AZ · Buckeye

31 Alfalfa hay farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 82 employers in Buckeye, AZ · 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 518 Farming, Inc 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sarale Farming Company, Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR OR/PAC Feed & Forage 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trio Equipment Company 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hacienda Crossing LLC 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iron Springs Store 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE FM Lake View, LLC 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE 7th Street 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR AZ State Prison Complex - Lewis 1,334 FTE
CITY-NEAR Az Department of Corrections 1,162 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASPC-Lewis 1,134 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6031 964 FTE
NAT-TCR Sweetwater Country Club 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 2568 - Henderson Green Valley Ranch Pkwy 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pennsylvania Grain Processing LLC 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Jefferson School District 14J 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pierce Building 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Country Harvest Family Markets Inc. 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE 12th & Maple Wine Co. 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Branch 1/5/8/12 - Hot Springs 40 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.

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

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