Tobacco farming, field and seed production · Kentucky

Richgrove Tobacco

Hopkinsville, KY · ~68 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Richgrove Tobacco runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Tobacco farming, field and seed production workplace, earning a grade A.

Richgrove Tobacco: 1.2 TCR = 28% of Tobacco farming, field and seed production BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Richgrove Tobacco safety composite

Richgrove Tobacco scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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

Richgrove Tobacco: 0.0 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 2.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2019

Richgrove Tobacco's TCR rose 2.5 from 0.0 in 2018 to 2.5 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111910 · Hopkinsville, KY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 28% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P64
  • PHOTO Workman Farms INC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Workman Farms INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Richgrove Tobacco in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Richgrove Tobacco averages 1.2 TCR (28% of the Tobacco farming, field and seed production BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Richgrove Tobacco TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=2.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Richgrove Tobacco falls in its industry

22 Tobacco farming, field and see establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Richgrove Tobacco (68 employees, TCR 1.2) among 9 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 25 employees and a TCR of 1.6 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 10 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 020406080 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Andrew Tyson FarmsStrickland Farms PayrollRock Ridge Farms PartnershipYarbrough Farms LLCFarmB & S Farming, Inc.Thomas Family Farms, Inc.FARMHolland Farms, IncRichgrove Tobacco
Richgrove Tobacco (68 employees, TCR 1.2) among 9 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 25 employees and a TCR of 1.6

Richgrove Tobacco has more employees than the Tobacco farming, field and seed producti median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.6. 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
2019 2.5 0.0 0 1 1
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111910 · KY · Hopkinsville

22 Tobacco farming, field and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 132 employers in Hopkinsville, KY · 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 Workman Farms INC 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR S2 Farms, LLC 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Strickland Farms Payroll 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leggett Farming Partnership 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE USA KY Richmond DSC 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE TODD COUNTY COURTHOUSE 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Enersys - Regional Distribution Center 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ionapex Electric 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jennie Stuart Medical Center 1,004 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6066 939 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6066 927 FTE
CITY-NEAR Metalsa 840 FTE
NAT-TCR Wheelabrator Ridge Energy Inc. 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 4300 Windfern Drive Suite 400 Houston TX 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0005 0914 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Touchstone Wireless Repair and Logistics (FWRC) 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 03-TTCO-ANNISTON 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Distribution 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gulf Crane Services Broussard 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Senior Care of Meadow Creek 68 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: 2019, 2018. 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.