Nursery stock growing · Wisconsin

Northern Family Farms

Merrillan, WI · ~101 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northern Family Farms runs at 197% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Nursery stock growing workplace, earning a grade D.

Northern Family Farms: 8.9 TCR = 197% of Nursery stock growing BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northern Family Farms safety composite

Northern Family Farms scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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

−2.0

2019→2024

Northern Family Farms injury rate improved

Northern Family Farms's TCR fell 2.0 from 10.3 in 2019 to 8.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 16.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=10.3 · 2020=16.0 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=7.0 · 2023=7.2 · 2024=8.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Merrillan, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.9 · 197% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO Treeland TAV
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 56 inj
  • SIZE ~101 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Treeland TAV (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northern Family Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northern Family Farms averages 8.9 TCR (197% of the Nursery stock growing BLS benchmark).

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

Northern Family Farms TCR series: 2019=10.3 · 2020=16 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=7 · 2023=7.2 · 2024=8.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Northern Family Farms falls in its industry

386 Nursery stock growing establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Nursery stock growing employers in Wisconsin.

Northern Family Farms (101 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Northern Family Farms
Northern Family Farms (101 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Northern Family Farms has more employees than the Nursery stock growing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 8.3 1.7 10 0 0
2023 7.2 4.5 8 0 0
2022 7.0 4.4 8 0 0
2021 4.4 0.0 5 0 0
2020 16.0 6.6 17 0 0
2019 10.3 4.1 8 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · WI · Merrillan

386 Nursery stock growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 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 Treeland TAV 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cameron Nursery, LLC 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR El Monte 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bunnell 8.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE J. G. Van Holten & Son, Inc. 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE B&G Foods 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE HENKEL US OPERATIONS CORP 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE SKWI01-SK-SK - MONROE 101 FTE
CITY-NEAR Merrillan East Coating 34 FTE
NAT-TCR Great Lakes Management GTHI Global Pointe Senior Living 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR PSL-Whispering Winds of Apple Valley 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Waterloo Ia - 3040 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Quaker Window Co. - Wood Facility 8.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Midland Cogeneration Venture 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Franklin Bronze Precision Components 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dream Downtown 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Super Giant Landover 774 101 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, 2020, 2019. 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.