Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers · North Dakota

Peterson Farms Seed

Harwood, ND · ~64 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Peterson Farms Seed runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Peterson Farms Seed: 2.3 TCR = 106% of Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Peterson Farms Seed safety composite

Peterson Farms Seed scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.49 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.4

2019→2024

Peterson Farms Seed injury rate improved

Peterson Farms Seed's TCR fell 0.4 from 3.4 in 2019 to 3.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=3.4 · 2020=1.5 · 2021=1.6 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Harwood, ND ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.3 · 106% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #8/18
  • PHOTO Farmers Coop Society…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Farmers Coop Society-Boyden (0.0 TCR gap)

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Peterson Farms Seed in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Peterson Farms Seed averages 2.3 TCR (106% of the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Peterson Farms Seed TCR series: 2019=3.4 · 2020=1.5 · 2021=1.6 · 2022=0 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=3 · BLS 2.2

Where Peterson Farms Seed falls in its industry

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchan establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 18 Agricultural chemicals merchan employers in North Dakota.

Peterson Farms Seed (64 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Peterson Farms Seed
Peterson Farms Seed (64 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Peterson Farms Seed has more employees than the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesal median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2024 3.0 1.5 2 0 0
2023 4.6 3.1 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 1.6 0.0 1 0 0
2020 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2019 3.4 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · ND · Harwood

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,696 rated employers in North Dakota 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 Farmers Coop Society-Boyden 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farmers Union - Grygla 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farm Service Cooperative Harlan Corporate Office 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Klostermann 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE John T. Jones Construction Co 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sun Electric Inc. 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE C.L. Linfoot Comapny 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bismarck - H A Thompson & Sons, Inc. 64 FTE
NAT-TCR 105 Butler Hill 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR NFI Interactive Logistics LLC-21 INLAND PARKWAY 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cagwin & Dorward 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sheraton Duluth 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mill Steel Corporation 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE 148 Cahokia 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chr Hansen - New Berlin 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cp Feeds LLC 64 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.

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

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