Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production · Massachusetts

Red Fire Farm

Montague, MA · ~63 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Red Fire Farm runs at 250% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production workplace, earning a grade F.

Red Fire Farm: 11.3 TCR = 250% of Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Red Fire Farm safety composite

Red Fire Farm scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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).

F

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Red Fire Farm: 2.3 → 11.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 20.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.44× in 2023

Red Fire Farm's TCR rose 9.4 from 2.3 in 2017 to 11.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 20.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111219 · Montague, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.3 · 250% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK P10
  • PHOTO T&A Onions - Salinas…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 53 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: T&A Onions - Salinas - Harvest (0.0 TCR gap)

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Red Fire Farm in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Red Fire Farm averages 11.3 TCR (250% of the Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

Red Fire Farm TCR series: 2017=2.3 · 2018=15.6 · 2019=16.8 · 2020=11.1 · 2021=20.9 · 2022=0.3 · 2023=11.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Red Fire Farm falls in its industry

331 Vegetable and melon farming, v establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Red Fire Farm (63 employees, TCR 11.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Red Fire Farm
Red Fire Farm (63 employees, TCR 11.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Red Fire Farm has fewer employees than the Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable ( median and a higher 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
2023 11.7 5.0 6 1 0
2022 0.3 0.3 20 2 0
2021 20.9 14.7 7 3 0
2020 11.1 11.1 6 0 0
2019 16.8 16.8 7 0 0
2018 15.6 7.8 6 0 0
2017 2.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · MA · Montague

331 Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts 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 T&A Onions - Salinas - Harvest 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Miller Farms, LLC 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Featherstone Fruits and Vegetables LLC. 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Diamond D Farm 11.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE FGE 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Window World Belchertown 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE C.C. Construction, Inc. 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE MAS Building & Bridge Inc. - Bridge & Dam 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR FirstLight MA Hydro LLC 15 FTE
NAT-TCR Embassy Suites Hillsboro 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Food 4 Less - Atascadero 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Development Workshop, Inc. Rexburg 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Fairhope Health & Rehab 11.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lourdes Ambulatory-Camden 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eakas Arkansas Corporation 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Ronald Reagan Library 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Riley Industrial Services, Inc. - Morenci 63 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.