Corn farming (except sweet corn), field and seed production · Ohio

Schlessman Seed Co - Hoover Road

Milan, OH · ~16 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Schlessman Seed Co - Hoover Road runs at 150% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Corn farming (except sweet corn), field and seed production workplace, earning a grade D.

Schlessman Seed Co - Hoover Road: 6.7 TCR = 150% of Corn farming (except sweet corn), field and seed production BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Schlessman Seed Co - Hoover Road safety composite

Schlessman Seed Co - Hoover Road scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Schlessman Seed Co - Hoover Road: 0.0 → 16.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 16.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Schlessman Seed Co - Hoover Road's TCR rose 16.8 from 0.0 in 2018 to 16.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111150 · Milan, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.7 · 150% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P21
  • PHOTO United Farmers Coope…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~16 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: United Farmers Cooperative (Creston #1) (0.1 TCR gap)

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Schlessman Seed Co - Hoover Road in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Schlessman Seed Co - Hoover Road averages 6.7 TCR (150% of the Corn farming (except sweet corn), field and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

Schlessman Seed Co - Hoover Road TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=11.3 · 2020=6.6 · 2021=5.8 · 2022=0 · 2023=16.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Schlessman Seed Co - Hoover Road falls in its industry

33 Corn farming (except sweet cor establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Schlessman Seed Co - Hoover Road (16 employees, TCR 6.7) among 23 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 24 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Schlessman Seed Co - Hoover Road
Schlessman Seed Co - Hoover Road (16 employees, TCR 6.7) among 23 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Schlessman Seed Co - Hoover Road has fewer employees than the Corn farming (except sweet corn), field 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
2023 16.8 0.0 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 5.8 5.8 1 0 0
2020 6.6 0.0 1 0 0
2019 11.3 11.3 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111150 · OH · Milan

33 Corn farming (except sweet corn), field and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 15 employers in Milan, OH · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR United Farmers Cooperative (Creston #1) 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Summit Farms, LLC 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sills Farms, Inc. 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wyffels Hybrids Production 7.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE New Vision Farms 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE McMaster Farms LLC 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE Worley at Lordstown Energy Center LEC 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE Total Roofing Services LLC 16 FTE
CITY-NEAR Freudenberg-NOK 269 FTE
CITY-NEAR CertainTeed - Avery 198 FTE
CITY-NEAR CertainTeed LLC 184 FTE
CITY-NEAR Milan 117 FTE
NAT-TCR Allstate Peterbilt of Winona 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Food City 037 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Bibb Distributing Co 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Charter Middle School 6.7 TCR

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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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