Employer · Delaware

Southern States Middletown Plant

Middletown, DE · ~18 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
23.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern States Middletown Plant runs at 687% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

Southern States Middletown Plant: 23.4 TCR = 687% of industry BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern States Middletown Plant safety composite

Southern States Middletown Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 23.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.7

2019→2020

Southern States Middletown Plant injury rate improved

Southern States Middletown Plant's TCR fell 6.7 from 26.7 in 2019 to 20.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 26.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=26.7 · 2020=20.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444220 · Middletown, DE ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 23.4 · 687% of ind

  • DART 13.3 DART
  • RANK P0
  • PHOTO Sunnyside Gardens
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sunnyside Gardens (0.9 TCR gap)

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Southern States Middletown Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern States Middletown Plant averages 23.4 TCR (687% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Southern States Middletown Plant TCR series: 2019=26.7 · 2020=20 · BLS 3.4

Where Southern States Middletown Plant falls in its industry

642 industry establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Southern States Middletown Plant (18 employees, TCR 23.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Southern States Middletown Plant
Southern States Middletown Plant (18 employees, TCR 23.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Southern States Middletown Plant has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. 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
2020 20.0 13.3 3 0 0
2019 26.7 10.7 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · DE · Middletown

642 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,487 rated employers in Delaware with headcount on file · 66 employers in Middletown, DE · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Sunnyside Gardens 22.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rt7 Herndon Meadows Farms 22.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Armstrong Garden Centers 716 21.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Homestead Gardens, Inc. - SP Retail 21.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Artesian Wastewater Management, Inc. 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chesapeake Home Services, LLC. 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE AWSM Solutions 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Store 1206 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : PHL7 2,921 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - PHL7 2,706 FTE
CITY-NEAR DEL0000049 GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - MIDDLETOWN 1,028 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3802 451 FTE
NAT-TCR Merrimack Valley Distributing 23.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ainsworth Brown County Care Center 23.4 TCR
NAT-TCR National Coney Island - Macomb Twp. 23.4 TCR
NAT-TCR CMS Home Care Oeste 23.4 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: 2020, 2019. 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.