Mixing purchased fertilizer materials · North Carolina

Southern States Statesville Fertilizer Plant and Warehouse

Statesville, NC · ~20 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern States Statesville Fertilizer Plant and Warehouse runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Mixing purchased fertilizer materials workplace, earning a grade C.

Southern States Statesville Fertilizer Plant and Warehouse: 3.3 TCR = 98% of Mixing purchased fertilizer materials BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern States Statesville Fertilizer Plant and Warehouse safety composite

Southern States Statesville Fertilizer Plant and Warehouse scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50%), 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).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

Southern States Statesville Fertilizer Plant and Warehouse held a steady TCR band

Southern States Statesville Fertilizer Plant and Warehouse's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 13.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2019=13.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325314 · Statesville, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 98% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO Vital Earth Resource…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vital Earth Resources, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern States Statesville Fertilizer Plant and Warehouse in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern States Statesville Fertilizer Plant and Warehouse averages 3.3 TCR (98% of the Mixing purchased fertilizer materials BLS benchmark).

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

Southern States Statesville Fertilizer Plant and Warehouse TCR series: 2017=0 · 2019=13 · 2020=0 · 2022=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Southern States Statesville Fertilizer Plant and Warehouse falls in its industry

163 Mixing purchased fertilizer ma establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Mixing purchased fertilizer ma employers in North Carolina.

Southern States Statesville Fertilizer Plant and Warehouse (20 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Southern States Statesville Fertilizer Plant and Warehouse
Southern States Statesville Fertilizer Plant and Warehouse (20 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Southern States Statesville Fertilizer Plant and Warehouse has fewer employees than the Mixing purchased fertilizer materials median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 13.0 4.3 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325314 · NC · Statesville

163 Mixing purchased fertilizer materials employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 181 employers in Statesville, NC · 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 Vital Earth Resources, Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR AWR South Yard 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Groveland 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Panamerican Fertilizer, Inc. 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Steve Thomas Farms 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kent Smith Farms 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ron Richmond 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thomas Family Farms, Inc. 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2807-0960 974 FTE
CITY-NEAR Doosan Bobcat 857 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0960 LOWE S NORTH CAROLINA RDC 836 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cheney Brothers Inc. - Statesville 830 FTE
NAT-TCR 2904-ASM-NM 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Washington, PA HCS 436415 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Southland Paving Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Euless TX Manufacturing 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Crowne of Montgomery (Housekeeping) 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blaine Brothers, Inc - H.S.I. 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Suncrest Assisted Living 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern States Bowling Green Coop. 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: 2022, 2020, 2019, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.