Sprayers, farm-type, merchant wholesalers · Nebraska

Heartland Ag - Grand Island

Grand Island, NE · ~54 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Heartland Ag - Grand Island runs at 220% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sprayers, farm-type, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Heartland Ag - Grand Island: 4.8 TCR = 220% of Sprayers, farm-type, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Heartland Ag - Grand Island safety composite

Heartland Ag - Grand Island scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 41%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

Heartland Ag - Grand Island: 3.5 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2018

Heartland Ag - Grand Island's TCR rose 0.5 from 3.5 in 2016 to 4.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.0 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423820 · Grand Island, NE ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.8 · 220% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #11/14
  • PHOTO C & B Operations Sto…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: C & B Operations Storm Lake (0.0 TCR gap)

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Heartland Ag - Grand Island in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Heartland Ag - Grand Island averages 4.8 TCR (220% of the Sprayers, farm-type, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Heartland Ag - Grand Island TCR series: 2016=3.5 · 2017=7 · 2018=4 · BLS 2.2

Where Heartland Ag - Grand Island falls in its industry

700 Sprayers, farm-type, merchant establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 14 Sprayers, farm-type, merchant employers in Nebraska.

Heartland Ag - Grand Island (54 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Heartland Ag - Grand Island
Heartland Ag - Grand Island (54 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Heartland Ag - Grand Island has more employees than the Sprayers, farm-type, merchant wholesaler 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
2018 4.0 0.0 2 0 0
2017 7.0 3.5 4 0 0
2016 3.5 1.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · NE · Grand Island

700 Sprayers, farm-type, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 140 employers in Grand Island, NE · 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 C & B Operations Storm Lake 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alliance OH 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR WTC - Greeley 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR SYDENSTRICKER IMPLEMENT-DUTZOW 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sandhills Elite Genetics, LLC 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rattlesnake Creek Wind 17141023 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Contractor Services Inc 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bergelectric Corporation-NE 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grand Island 3,651 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Francis Medical Center 699 FTE
CITY-NEAR CNH Industrial - Grand Island 688 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hornady Mfg Co 627 FTE
NAT-TCR Xerium / Stowe Woodward GA 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Hilton Garden Inn 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Hometown #549 (Hardin, MT) 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR USC Kings, Bushwick Plant 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Allied Terrace 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Green Plains Bluffton LLC 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chesapeake (Woodlake Circle) 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Texas Musical Drama 54 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.