Seed processing, post-harvest for propagation · Oregon

Pennington Seed - Seed Processing Lebanon

Lebanon, OR · ~49 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pennington Seed - Seed Processing Lebanon runs at 21% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Seed processing, post-harvest for propagation workplace, earning a grade A.

Pennington Seed - Seed Processing Lebanon: 1.0 TCR = 21% of Seed processing, post-harvest for propagation BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pennington Seed - Seed Processing Lebanon safety composite

Pennington Seed - Seed Processing Lebanon scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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).

C

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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

Pennington Seed - Seed Processing Lebanon: 0.0 → 1.9 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 1.9 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2017

Pennington Seed - Seed Processing Lebanon's TCR rose 1.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.9 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115114 · Lebanon, OR AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 21% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #4/21
  • PHOTO Pioneer Hi-Bred Inte…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pennington Seed - Seed Processing Lebanon in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pennington Seed - Seed Processing Lebanon averages 1.0 TCR (21% of the Seed processing, post-harvest for propagation BLS benchmark).

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

Pennington Seed - Seed Processing Lebanon TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=1.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Pennington Seed - Seed Processing Lebanon falls in its industry

666 Seed processing, post-harvest establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 21 Seed processing, post-harvest employers in Oregon.

Pennington Seed - Seed Processing Lebanon (49 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Pennington Seed - Seed Processing Lebanon
Pennington Seed - Seed Processing Lebanon (49 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Pennington Seed - Seed Processing Lebanon has fewer employees than the Seed processing, post-harvest for propag median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2017 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · OR · Lebanon

666 Seed processing, post-harvest for propagation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 37 employers in Lebanon, OR · 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 Pioneer Hi-Bred International, INC 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Whitestown, IN 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kihei, HI - Piilani 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advanced Sunflower, LLC Huron 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Polehn Farms Inc 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fessler Nursery Company 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE UNIVERSAL SEED LLC 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sunnyview (Shared Services + MVS Admin + Warehouse) 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2807-1436 678 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lebanon Community Hospital 602 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lebanon Community Schools 535 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1436 LOWE S LEBANON OR RDC 502 FTE
NAT-TCR Siemens Energy Inc. - Mount Vernon 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 48- Ladd (Cattani) 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Beaumont District Office EN4T 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Glasgow 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE AAA Worldwide Transportation 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Village of Elk Rapids 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE AKA Tree Removal 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Mansfield LLC 49 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.