Planting machinery and equipment, farm-type, merchant wholesalers · Pennsylvania

Messick'S Farm Equipment

Mount Joy, PA · ~252 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Messick'S Farm Equipment runs at 172% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Planting machinery and equipment, farm-type, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Messick'S Farm Equipment: 3.8 TCR = 172% of Planting machinery and equipment, farm-type, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Messick'S Farm Equipment safety composite

Messick'S Farm Equipment scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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

−1.9

2022→2024

Messick'S Farm Equipment injury rate improved

Messick'S Farm Equipment's TCR fell 1.9 from 4.9 in 2022 to 3.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=4.9 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423820 · Mount Joy, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.8 · 172% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #9/17
  • PHOTO Waupun Equipment - W…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~252 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Waupun Equipment - Waupun (0.0 TCR gap)

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Messick'S Farm Equipment in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Messick'S Farm Equipment averages 3.8 TCR (172% of the Planting machinery and equipment, farm-type, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Messick'S Farm Equipment TCR series: 2022=4.9 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=3 · BLS 2.2

Where Messick'S Farm Equipment falls in its industry

700 Planting machinery and equipme establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 17 Planting machinery and equipme employers in Pennsylvania.

Messick'S Farm Equipment (252 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Messick'S Farm Equipment
Messick'S Farm Equipment (252 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Messick'S Farm Equipment has more employees than the Planting machinery and equipment, farm-t median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 3.0 0.5 6 0 0
2023 3.4 0.4 8 0 0
2022 4.9 0.3 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · PA · Mount Joy

700 Planting machinery and equipment, farm-type, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 63 employers in Mount Joy, PA · 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 Waupun Equipment - Waupun 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Koenig Equipment- Rushville, IN 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Live Oak FL 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Goldman Equipment, LLC - West Monroe 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Constellation Nuclear Headquarters at Kennett Square 252 FTE
STATE-SIZE Conewago Enterprises 252 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grid One Solutions - 194 252 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ingredients - Cheese - New Wilmington PA 252 FTE
CITY-NEAR Greiner Industries Inc 276 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - DPL7 241 FTE
CITY-NEAR Patterson Logistics Services 1 234 FTE
CITY-NEAR 106485 193 FTE
NAT-TCR Crest Foods Store 1 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Rock Island Store 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR INTAT Precision, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Archon Construction Co., Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Location 15034 252 FTE
NAT-SIZE Huntington County Government 252 FTE
NAT-SIZE 193012-Jacksonville North | FL | 193012 252 FTE
NAT-SIZE Regents Point 252 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.