Bedding plant growing (except vegetable and melon bedding plants) · Arkansas

Parks Brothers Farms, Inc.

Van Buren, AR · ~52 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Parks Brothers Farms, Inc. runs at 15% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Bedding plant growing (except vegetable and melon bedding plants) workplace, earning a grade A.

Parks Brothers Farms, Inc.: 0.7 TCR = 15% of Bedding plant growing (except vegetable and melon bedding plants) BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Parks Brothers Farms, Inc. safety composite

Parks Brothers Farms, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% 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).

B

81/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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%).

Parks Brothers Farms, Inc. held a steady TCR band

Parks Brothers Farms, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=4.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111422 · Van Buren, AR AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 15% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P95
  • PHOTO C3 Industries Inc - HQ
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: C3 Industries Inc - HQ (0.0 TCR gap)

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Parks Brothers Farms, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Parks Brothers Farms, Inc. averages 0.7 TCR (15% of the Bedding plant growing (except vegetable and melon bedding plants) BLS benchmark).

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

Parks Brothers Farms, Inc. TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=4 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Parks Brothers Farms, Inc. falls in its industry

166 Bedding plant growing (except establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Parks Brothers Farms, Inc. (52 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 01,0002,0003,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Parks Brothers Farms, Inc.
Parks Brothers Farms, Inc. (52 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Parks Brothers Farms, Inc. has fewer employees than the Bedding plant growing (except vegetable median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 4.0 4.0 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111422 · AR · Van Buren

166 Bedding plant growing (except vegetable and melon bedding plants) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 71 employers in Van Buren, AR · 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 C3 Industries Inc - HQ 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amerigo Farms Inc 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR C3 Industries, Inc - Portland 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Progressive Growers Inc 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Peco Foods Hatchery 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri Star Contractors, LLC 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE AR 1a 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE APAC-Central Office 52 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Buren Drivers 1,245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Buren Plant 1,089 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Buren General Office 850 FTE
CITY-NEAR VBR 751 FTE
NAT-TCR EnviroLogix Inc. 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR US092: Evansville, IN 324 - SG 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Las Vegas, NV HVAC 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR State Trial Courts 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE A Finishing Touch 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bickford of Presque Isle Bay 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bickford of West Lansing 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hillcrest Youth Services 52 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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