Chemicals, agricultural, merchant wholesalers · Missouri

River Valley Agronomy Center

Higginsville, MO · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

River Valley Agronomy Center runs at 331% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Chemicals, agricultural, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

River Valley Agronomy Center: 7.3 TCR = 331% of Chemicals, agricultural, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

River Valley Agronomy Center safety composite

River Valley Agronomy Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

River Valley Agronomy Center: 5.4 → 9.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.63× in 2024

River Valley Agronomy Center's TCR rose 3.7 from 5.4 in 2022 to 9.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Higginsville, MO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 331% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #37/50
  • PHOTO Bradford
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bradford (0.0 TCR gap)

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River Valley Agronomy Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows River Valley Agronomy Center averages 7.3 TCR (331% of the Chemicals, agricultural, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

River Valley Agronomy Center TCR series: 2022=5.4 · 2024=9.1 · BLS 2.2

Where River Valley Agronomy Center falls in its industry

1,202 Chemicals, agricultural, merch establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #37 safest of 50 Chemicals, agricultural, merch employers in Missouri.

River Valley Agronomy Center (20 employees, TCR 7.3) 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 River Valley Agronomy Center
River Valley Agronomy Center (20 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

River Valley Agronomy Center has fewer employees than the Chemicals, agricultural, merchant wholes median and a higher 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 9.1 4.6 2 0 0
2022 5.4 5.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · MO · Higginsville

1,202 Chemicals, agricultural, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 9 employers in Higginsville, MO · 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 Bradford 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Local Seed LLC - Dulaney Seed LLC 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Redi-Gro Corporation 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SGS Retail - Hanford 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE CoverCress INC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE RUCKMAN #9 - 16 & 27 -EST 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Silver Creek Pig, Inc. 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newport Farms, LLC. 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Knox Village East & Meyer Care Center 105 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 326 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR 326 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR MOHIG - HIGGINSVILLE 54 FTE
NAT-TCR Westminster Decatur 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cherryville 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mayer Bros Barker 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Pinnacle Inc. 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE American Ring Manufacturing, Livonia, MI 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Century Cabinets - Florida 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hardwoods Specialty Products US LP - Renton 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Phoenix Houses of California. Inc. - ISP 20 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, 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.