Farm tractors and attachments manufacturing · North Dakota

John Deere Seeding Group Valley City

Valley City, ND · ~320 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

John Deere Seeding Group Valley City runs at 244% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Farm tractors and attachments manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

John Deere Seeding Group Valley City: 8.1 TCR = 244% of Farm tractors and attachments manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

John Deere Seeding Group Valley City safety composite

John Deere Seeding Group Valley City scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.4

2021→2024

John Deere Seeding Group Valley City injury rate improved

John Deere Seeding Group Valley City's TCR fell 1.4 from 7.9 in 2021 to 6.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=7.9 · 2022=8.0 · 2023=9.9 · 2024=6.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333111 · Valley City, ND ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.1 · 244% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #9/17
  • PHOTO VERSA CORPORATION
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 103 inj
  • SIZE ~320 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: VERSA CORPORATION (0.0 TCR gap)

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John Deere Seeding Group Valley City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows John Deere Seeding Group Valley City averages 8.1 TCR (244% of the Farm tractors and attachments manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

John Deere Seeding Group Valley City TCR series: 2021=7.9 · 2022=8 · 2023=9.9 · 2024=6.5 · BLS 3.3

Where John Deere Seeding Group Valley City falls in its industry

433 Farm tractors and attachments establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 17 Farm tractors and attachments employers in North Dakota.

John Deere Seeding Group Valley City (320 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate John Deere Seeding Group Valley City
John Deere Seeding Group Valley City (320 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2

John Deere Seeding Group Valley City has more employees than the Farm tractors and attachments manufactur median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 6.5 5.0 22 0 0
2023 9.9 6.5 34 1 0
2022 8.0 4.3 26 0 0
2021 7.9 4.7 21 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333111 · ND · Valley City

433 Farm tractors and attachments manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,696 rated employers in North Dakota with headcount on file · 20 employers in Valley City, ND · 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 VERSA CORPORATION 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coe Orchard Equipment, Inc. 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Triple C Manufacturing, Inc. 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valley Tool Mfg. Co., Inc. 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cardinal IG -Fargo IG 321 FTE
STATE-SIZE Altru South Washington Campus 321 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mandan Refinery 317 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 4352 323 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sheyenne Care Center 278 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Seeding Group - Valley City 265 FTE
CITY-NEAR SMP Health- St. Raphael 240 FTE
CITY-NEAR Open Door Center 237 FTE
NAT-TCR Welsh Mountain Home 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR PAM Specialty Hospital of New Orleans 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Blue Spruce Landscape 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Adams 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Golden State Foods Opelika Protein Division 320 FTE
NAT-SIZE 8010120 Johnsonville Sausage Sheboygan Falls 320 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rivergate Terrace 320 FTE
NAT-SIZE Juana Diaz, PR 320 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.