Fruit stock (e.g., plants, seedlings, trees) growing · Massachusetts

Nourse Farms, Inc.

Name: Nourse Farms, Inc. Workplace Safety Data
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South Deerfield, MA · ~123 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.5
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Nourse Farms, Inc. runs at 54% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Fruit stock (e.g., plants, seedlings, trees) growing workplace, earning a grade B.

Nourse Farms, Inc.: 2.5 TCR = 54% of Fruit stock (e.g., plants, seedlings, trees) growing BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nourse Farms, Inc. safety composite

Nourse Farms, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 2.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers
DART rate: D 1.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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

Nourse Farms, Inc.: 1.0 → 1.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.73× in 2022

Nourse Farms, Inc.'s TCR rose 0.8 from 1.0 in 2018 to 1.8 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.9 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · South Deerfield, MA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 54% of ind

DART 1.8 DART
RANK P81
PHOTO North Georgia Turf, …
BOOK 5y book
INJ 17 inj
SIZE ~123 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: North Georgia Turf, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Nourse Farms, Inc. averages 2.5 TCR (54% of the Fruit stock (e.g., plants, seedlings, trees) growing BLS benchmark).

Nourse Farms, Inc. TCR series: 2018=1 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=3.9 · 2021=3.1 · 2022=1.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Nourse Farms, Inc. falls in its industry

386 Fruit stock (e.g., plants, see establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Nourse Farms, Inc. (123 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Nourse Farms, Inc. has more employees than the Fruit stock (e.g., plants, seedlings, tr median and a lower 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
2022	1.8	1.8	3
2021	3.1	3.1	5
2020	3.9	2.3	5
2019	2.5	2.5	3
2018	1.0	0.0	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · MA · South Deerfield

386 Fruit stock (e.g., plants, seedlings, trees) growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 14 employers in South Deerfield, MA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	North Georgia Turf, Inc	WHITESBURG, GA	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	SMR Farms	LAKEWOOD RANCH, FL	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Palmer Westbrook Inc.	SMITH RIVER, CA	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Sustainably Green LLC	SEBASTOPOL, CA	2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	DPR Construction - Boston	CAMBRIDGE	123 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Cape Associates Eastham office	EASTHAM	123 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Thyssenkrupp- Boston	WESTWOOD	123 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Marr Scaffolding Company	SOUTH BOSTON	123 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Yankee Candle Retail	South Deerfield	2,766 FTE
CITY-NEAR	South Deerfield Facility	South Deerfield	401 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Yankee Candle Operations	South Deerfield	329 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Yankee Candle Distribution	South Deerfield	313 FTE
NAT-TCR	Permian Excavating	Tomah, WI	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	buybuy Baby Tucson	Tucson, AZ	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Mardant Home Office	Jacksonville, FL	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	buybuy Baby Yorba Linda	Yorba Linda, CA	2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Road-Con, Inc.	West Chester, PA	123 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Main	Wapakoneta, OH	123 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Riverview	San Bernardino, CA	123 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Ortronics Inc	Farmingdale, NY	123 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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