Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant and seed production · Ohio

K.W. Zellers & Son, Inc.

Hartville, OH · ~94 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

K.W. Zellers & Son, Inc. runs at 60% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant and seed production workplace, earning a grade B.

K.W. Zellers & Son, Inc.: 2.7 TCR = 60% of Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant and seed production BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

K.W. Zellers & Son, Inc. safety composite

K.W. Zellers & Son, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.7

2016→2023

K.W. Zellers & Son, Inc. injury rate improved

K.W. Zellers & Son, Inc.'s TCR fell 1.7 from 4.3 in 2016 to 2.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.3 · 2017=1.4 · 2018=2.9 · 2019=2.6 · 2021=2.4 · 2023=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111219 · Hartville, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.7 · 60% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/4
  • PHOTO Garden City Harvest
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~94 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Garden City Harvest (0.0 TCR gap)

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K.W. Zellers & Son, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows K.W. Zellers & Son, Inc. averages 2.7 TCR (60% of the Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

K.W. Zellers & Son, Inc. TCR series: 2016=4.3 · 2017=1.4 · 2018=2.9 · 2019=2.6 · 2021=2.4 · 2023=2.6 · BLS 4.5

Where K.W. Zellers & Son, Inc. falls in its industry

331 Lettuce farming, field, beddin establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 4 Lettuce farming, field, beddin employers in Ohio.

K.W. Zellers & Son, Inc. (94 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate K.W. Zellers & Son, Inc.
K.W. Zellers & Son, Inc. (94 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

K.W. Zellers & Son, Inc. has more employees than the Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant an median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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
2023 2.6 0.0 2 0 0
2021 2.4 0.0 3 0 0
2019 2.6 0.0 3 0 0
2018 2.9 0.0 4 0 0
2017 1.4 0.0 1 1 0
2016 4.3 0.0 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · OH · Hartville

331 Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 20 employers in Hartville, OH · 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 Garden City Harvest 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Legacy Growers, LLC. 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR ARVIN ADMINISTRATION 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Filice Farms, L.P. 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Scherzinger Pest Control 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE AEP Energy Contact Center 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE WESTERN - WEST PARK SHOP 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spieker Company 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hartville Hardware 313 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hartville Kitchen and The Shops at Hartville 243 FTE
CITY-NEAR GentleBrook 175 FTE
CITY-NEAR LMT-Hartville, inc 161 FTE
NAT-TCR Kingspan Insulated Panels Deland 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hamden Markets LLC, dba ShopRite of Hamden 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR All-Phase Electric Supply (PC0946) 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Live Turkey - Dayton VA Feed Mill 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amcor Ames 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Deeter Foundry 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harbor Health Services Inc Corporate 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Onion River Cooperative, DBA City Market South End 94 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: 2023, 2021, 2019, 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.