Farm supply stores · Virginia

Southern States Bedford Coop.

Bedford, VA · ~29 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Southern States Bedford Coop. runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Farm supply stores workplace, earning a grade C.

C
Average Safety Record
2.2
avg TCR · per 100 workers
2.2
industry benchmark (BLS)
3
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Southern States Bedford Coop.'s OSHA Total Case Rate of 2.2 to the Farm supply stores BLS benchmark of 2.2 (98% of benchmark) across 5 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). This reflects reported recordable injuries, not an independent safety inspection -- underreporting is a known limitation of employer self-recordkeeping.

Injury rate over time

Southern States Bedford Coop.'s yearly Total Case Rate, against the 2.2 industry benchmark.

-202468 20172019202020212022 3.62.2 Industry benchmarkSouthern States Bedford Coop. TCR
Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 424910.

Where Southern States Bedford Coop. falls in its industry

1,442 Farm supply stores establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 18 Farm supply stores employers in Virginia.

Trend analysis for Southern States Bedford Coop.

Between 2017 and 2022, Southern States Bedford Coop.'s Total Case Rate held roughly steady from 0.0 to 3.6 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 0% change across 5 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2017, at a TCR of 0.0, while 2021 saw the highest rate, at 7.2, a spread of 7.2 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 5 reporting years, Southern States Bedford Coop. recorded 3 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 5-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 3 injuries shown on this page for Southern States Bedford Coop. are sourced from its own 5 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 424910 - Farm supply stores.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2022)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

1 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 54,980 hours worked = 3.64 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Southern States Bedford Coop. (this establishment) 2.16 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 5-year avg
Farm Supplies industry avg 2.20 BLS IIF, NAICS 424910
Virginia state avg (all industries) 4.16 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Southern States Bedford Coop. to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2022 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2021 7.2 7.2 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Southern States Bedford Coop.'s reported OSHA injury record, strong versus its Farm supply stores peers, but not a guarantee about any single site today.

  • At 98% of the Farm supply stores benchmark, Southern States Bedford Coop. reports fewer injuries than typical peers, still worth asking how safety is managed day to day. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Farm supply stores sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Southern States Bedford Coop.'s safety grade?
Southern States Bedford Coop. has a safety grade of C (Average Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 2.2 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 2.2 for Farm supply stores.
How many injuries has Southern States Bedford Coop. reported?
Southern States Bedford Coop. has reported 3 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 5 years of OSHA data (2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017. 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. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.