Farm supply stores · Virginia

Southern States Bedford Coop.

Name: Southern States Bedford Coop. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Bedford, VA · ~29 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

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

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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.

Southern States Bedford Coop.: 2.2 TCR = 98% of Farm supply stores BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern States Bedford Coop. safety composite

Southern States Bedford Coop. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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).

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers
DART rate: F 3.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

Southern States Bedford Coop.: 0.0 → 3.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 7.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.69× in 2022

Southern States Bedford Coop.'s TCR rose 3.6 from 0.0 in 2017 to 3.6 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 7.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Bedford, VA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.2 · 98% of ind

DART 3.6 DART
RANK #6/13
PHOTO Galva KS
BOOK 5y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Galva KS (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Southern States Bedford Coop. averages 2.2 TCR (98% of the Farm supply stores BLS benchmark).

Southern States Bedford Coop. TCR series: 2017=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=7.2 · 2022=3.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Southern States Bedford Coop. falls in its industry

1,202 Farm supply stores establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 13 Farm supply stores employers in Virginia.

Southern States Bedford Coop. (29 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Southern States Bedford Coop. has fewer employees than the Farm supply stores median and a lower 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
2022	3.6	3.6	1
2021	7.2	7.2	2
2020	0.0	0.0	0
2019	0.0	0.0	0
2017	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · VA · Bedford

1,202 Farm supply stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 38 employers in Bedford, VA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Galva KS	GALVA, KS	2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Tangent OR	TANGENT, OR	2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Galva KS KS	GALVA, KS	2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Manlius IL	MANLIUS, IL	2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	WDC Greenhouse LLC	ELLKWOOD	29 FTE
STATE-SIZE	BIRDSONG PEANUTS - FRK/SOUTHAMPTON	FRANKLIN	29 FTE
STATE-SIZE	HAR-TRU Sports	TROY	29 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Har-Tru, LLC	TROY	29 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 1399	Bedford	314 FTE
CITY-NEAR	1399	Bedford	292 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Sam Moore Furniture	Bedford	216 FTE
CITY-NEAR	524 - BEDFORD	Bedford	123 FTE
NAT-TCR	Diversicare of St. Theresa	Cincinnati, OH	2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Altitude Energy, LLC	Keenesburg, CO	2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Nucor Steel Longview	Longview, TX	2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	HG103	Florence, KY	2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Wang Global-NY	Moonachie, NJ	29 FTE
NAT-SIZE	CentraCare - Long Prairie Meadow Place	Long Prairie, MN	29 FTE
NAT-SIZE	683 - Brookfield Usps	N Kansas City, MO	29 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Arrowhead Contacting, Inc.	Lenexa, KS	29 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017. 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.