Mixing purchased fertilizer materials · Kentucky

Southern States Winchester Fertilizer Plant

Winchester, KY · ~26 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern States Winchester Fertilizer Plant runs at 212% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Mixing purchased fertilizer materials workplace, earning a grade F.

Southern States Winchester Fertilizer Plant: 7.0 TCR = 212% of Mixing purchased fertilizer materials BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern States Winchester Fertilizer Plant safety composite

Southern States Winchester Fertilizer Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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%).

TCR Δ

−12.7

2016→2020

Southern States Winchester Fertilizer Plant injury rate improved

Southern States Winchester Fertilizer Plant's TCR fell 12.7 from 12.7 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 15.3 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=12.7 · 2017=0.0 · 2019=15.3 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325314 · Winchester, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 212% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO Frit Industries
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Frit Industries (0.3 TCR gap)

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Southern States Winchester Fertilizer Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern States Winchester Fertilizer Plant averages 7.0 TCR (212% 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 Winchester Fertilizer Plant TCR series: 2016=12.7 · 2017=0 · 2019=15.3 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Southern States Winchester Fertilizer Plant falls in its industry

163 Mixing purchased fertilizer ma establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Mixing purchased fertilizer ma employers in Kentucky.

Southern States Winchester Fertilizer Plant (26 employees, TCR 7.0) 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 Winchester Fertilizer Plant
Southern States Winchester Fertilizer Plant (26 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Southern States Winchester Fertilizer Plant has fewer employees than the Mixing purchased fertilizer materials median and a higher 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 15.3 15.3 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 12.7 12.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325314 · KY · Winchester

163 Mixing purchased fertilizer materials employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 79 employers in Winchester, KY · 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 Frit Industries 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Cooperative- Reedsburg 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ontelaunee Farms, Inc. 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Scotts Company - Everett 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE 830 Grassy Springs 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE 222-NiSource-Ashland KY-Service Cent 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3510 COLEMAN RD PADUCAH KY 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE INTEC Group LLC 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clark Regional Medical Center 576 FTE
CITY-NEAR Winchester 482 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pearl Interactive Network 481 FTE
CITY-NEAR Infiltrator Water Technologies 396 FTE
NAT-TCR Passages, Inc. 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mercy Health St Charles Hospital 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mercy Life 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Williamsburg Villas 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Southern States Anderson-Royston Service - Anderson Branch 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Euclid Terminal 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holiday Inn Express Phoenix Downtown Ballpark 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Oxford Management LLC Dallas Office 26 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: 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.