Farm supply stores · Maine

North Spore

Portland, ME · ~58 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

North Spore runs at 449% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Farm supply stores workplace, earning a grade F.

North Spore: 15.3 TCR = 449% of Farm supply stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

North Spore safety composite

North Spore scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

North Spore: 10.0 → 15.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 20.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.02× in 2024

North Spore's TCR rose 5.5 from 10.0 in 2022 to 15.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 20.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444220 · Portland, ME ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.3 · 449% of ind

  • DART 15.5 DART
  • RANK P4
  • PHOTO The Growing Place nu…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Growing Place nursery & flower farm, inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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North Spore in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows North Spore averages 15.3 TCR (449% of the Farm supply stores BLS benchmark).

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

North Spore TCR series: 2022=10 · 2023=20.3 · 2024=15.5 · BLS 3.4

Where North Spore falls in its industry

642 Farm supply stores establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
North Spore (58 employees, TCR 15.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate North Spore
North Spore (58 employees, TCR 15.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

North Spore has more employees than the Farm supply stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. 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 15.5 15.5 7 1 0
2023 20.3 11.0 10 1 0
2022 10.0 10.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · ME · Portland

642 Farm supply stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,397 rated employers in Maine with headcount on file · 244 employers in Portland, ME · 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 The Growing Place nursery & flower farm, inc. 15.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 7th Street 15.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 9 - Theisen's - Iowa Falls 15.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Abrahamson Nurseries - Stillwater 15.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Irving Woodlands LLC 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hebert Construction Lewiston 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE H.B. Fleming 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electrical Systems of Maine 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR MMC 8,437 FTE
CITY-NEAR MMC- 22 Bram 5,535 FTE
CITY-NEAR Point32Health Portland 4,440 FTE
CITY-NEAR MMP Practices 2,063 FTE
NAT-TCR W&P Ventures LLC dba PuroClean of Lafayette 15.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Capital City Construction, Inc. 15.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Akfar - Fairbanks Center 15.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Lancaster Leaf Tobacco Company, Inc. - Storage 15.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE X-Cel Tooling, Inc. 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE National Container Group 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE HLWW High School 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Performance Office Papers 58 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.