Botanicals merchant wholesalers · North Carolina

Herbal ingenuity LLC

Wilkesboro, NC · ~28 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Herbal ingenuity LLC runs at 427% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Botanicals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Herbal ingenuity LLC: 9.4 TCR = 427% of Botanicals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Herbal ingenuity LLC safety composite

Herbal ingenuity LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Herbal ingenuity LLC: 3.5 → 15.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 15.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.22× in 2024

Herbal ingenuity LLC's TCR rose 11.7 from 3.5 in 2023 to 15.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424210 · Wilkesboro, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.4 · 427% of ind

  • DART 11.5 DART
  • RANK #23/23
  • PHOTO 4016-10234000
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4016-10234000 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Herbal ingenuity LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Herbal ingenuity LLC averages 9.4 TCR (427% of the Botanicals merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Herbal ingenuity LLC TCR series: 2023=3.5 · 2024=15.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Herbal ingenuity LLC falls in its industry

514 Botanicals merchant wholesaler establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 23 Botanicals merchant wholesaler employers in North Carolina.

Herbal ingenuity LLC (28 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 02004006008001,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Herbal ingenuity LLC
Herbal ingenuity LLC (28 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Herbal ingenuity LLC has fewer employees than the Botanicals merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 15.3 11.5 3 1 0
2023 3.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424210 · NC · Wilkesboro

514 Botanicals merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 43 employers in Wilkesboro, NC · 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 4016-10234000 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4016-10304000 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3495-10D8144 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10D8144 PHARMA CHICAGOLAND DC 9.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE H & D Farms, Inc. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE SMITH FARMS 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michael Morris Farms 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elkin Hatchery 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilkesboro Fresh Plant 2,164 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilkesboro Food Service Plant 312 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1290 308 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1290 304 FTE
NAT-TCR Addington Place of Fairfield 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Electro-Mechanical Industries 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 4357 - 1-Main 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Tavros, LLC. 9.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hamlin Farms 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE 03 Topeka, KS 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE 18 Columbus, OH 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE 19 Cincinnati, OH 28 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.