Hydroponic crop farming · Indiana

Pure Green Farms

South Bend, IN · ~48 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pure Green Farms runs at 210% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hydroponic crop farming workplace, earning a grade F.

Pure Green Farms: 9.4 TCR = 210% of Hydroponic crop farming BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pure Green Farms safety composite

Pure Green Farms scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Pure Green Farms: 4.9 → 14.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 14.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Pure Green Farms's TCR rose 9.1 from 4.9 in 2022 to 14.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111419 · South Bend, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.4 · 210% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Verano NJ CPG
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Verano NJ CPG (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pure Green Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pure Green Farms averages 9.4 TCR (210% of the Hydroponic crop farming BLS benchmark).

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

Pure Green Farms TCR series: 2022=4.9 · 2023=14 · BLS 4.5

Where Pure Green Farms falls in its industry

251 Hydroponic crop farming establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Hydroponic crop farming employers in Indiana.

Pure Green Farms (48 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Pure Green Farms
Pure Green Farms (48 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Pure Green Farms has fewer employees than the Hydroponic crop farming 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
2023 14.0 0.0 5 0 0
2022 4.9 2.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111419 · IN · South Bend

251 Hydroponic crop farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 318 employers in South Bend, IN · 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 Verano NJ CPG 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbia Care New Jersey LLC.-Vineland 2 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alternative Compassion Services 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Soli Organic Inc. - Sherman 9.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Police Department 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred International Rushville 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harrison County REMC 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kankakee Valley REMC Headquarters 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Hospital South Bend 2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph County 1,298 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fourwinds Casino South Bend 1,021 FTE
CITY-NEAR Honeywell IN08 810 FTE
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #4653 Lakewood, WA 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR montalvo farms 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR American Red Cross - 1301 W Saint Germain St 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Amalgamate Processing Inc - Dallas 9.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Villas of Brookhaven 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE AIG Maryland 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE CSL Green Bay LLC dba Brookview Meadows 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hanna Fairfield 48 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: 2023, 2022. 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.