Farm supplies merchant wholesalers · Tennessee

Local Seed Company, LLC

Memphis, TN · ~40 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Local Seed Company, LLC runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Farm supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Local Seed Company, LLC: 2.8 TCR = 126% of Farm supplies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Local Seed Company, LLC safety composite

Local Seed Company, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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

Local Seed Company, LLC: 0.0 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.66× in 2019

Local Seed Company, LLC's TCR rose 5.5 from 0.0 in 2018 to 5.5 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Memphis, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 2.8 · 126% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #25/59
  • PHOTO Uvalde, TX
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Uvalde, TX (0.0 TCR gap)

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Local Seed Company, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Local Seed Company, LLC averages 2.8 TCR (126% of the Farm supplies merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Local Seed Company, LLC TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=5.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Local Seed Company, LLC falls in its industry

1,202 Farm supplies merchant wholesa establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 59 Farm supplies merchant wholesa employers in Tennessee.

Local Seed Company, LLC (40 employees, TCR 2.8) 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 Local Seed Company, LLC
Local Seed Company, LLC (40 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Local Seed Company, LLC has more employees than the Farm supplies merchant wholesalers 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
2019 5.5 1.8 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · TN · Memphis

1,202 Farm supplies merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 1,330 employers in Memphis, TN · 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 Uvalde, TX 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Owatonna Agronomy 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wheeler 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Whiteville 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Moseley Bros. 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2022 Milan Public Utilities 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Milan Department of Public Utilities 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE MEC NEWLAND BRANCH 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR FedEx 2903 SPRANKLE DR 12,398 FTE
CITY-NEAR 381940311 9,861 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Residential Services 5,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Jude Children's Research Hospital 5,599 FTE
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0005 0835 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Newman 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0019 1690 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0017 1487 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE JR Simplot Company LL HQ 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waters Corporation Sharpsburg, PA 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tualatin or - Hs Portland or - Cb 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alfa Laval Inc. Lykens (loc code: PALYKE) 40 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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.