Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers · Massachusetts

IBA Inc.

Sutton, MA · ~80 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

IBA Inc. runs at 155% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

IBA Inc.: 3.4 TCR = 155% of Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

IBA Inc. safety composite

IBA Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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%).

IBA Inc. held a steady TCR band

IBA Inc.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 1.2 in 2020 to 1.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=1.2 · 2021=8.7 · 2022=1.2 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Sutton, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.4 · 155% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO Bissett Nursery #714
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bissett Nursery #714 (0.0 TCR gap)

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IBA Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows IBA Inc. averages 3.4 TCR (155% of the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

IBA Inc. TCR series: 2020=1.2 · 2021=8.7 · 2022=1.2 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 2.2

Where IBA Inc. falls in its industry

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchan establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 Agricultural chemicals merchan employers in Massachusetts.

IBA Inc. (80 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate IBA Inc.
IBA Inc. (80 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

IBA Inc. has more employees than the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesal median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2023 4.8 1.2 4 0 0
2022 1.2 0.0 1 0 0
2021 8.7 3.5 4 1 0
2020 1.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · MA · Sutton

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 16 employers in Sutton, MA · 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 Bissett Nursery #714 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bomgaars Supply,Inc. - O'Neill 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bomgaars Supply,Inc. - Spearfish 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bomgaars Supply,Inc. - Sterling 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE BEVERLY 5310 ELECTRIC-MA05 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Hyde Park 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE MIG CORPORATION, INC. 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Diaz Construction Co., Inc. 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR UN1F1ED2MA 509 FTE
CITY-NEAR AGS-MA 352 FTE
CITY-NEAR Primetals Technologies Sutton 286 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutton, MA #244 259 FTE
NAT-TCR 1318 LKQ Newark 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR B49 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Maryland Renaissance Festival 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR MOK005 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Winston Salem Fairgrounds 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Captiva Containers 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Copeland Precast 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bentwood Farms Inc. 80 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. 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.