Fertilizer and fertilizer materials merchant wholesalers · Ohio

Spring Valley

Fostoria, OH · ~19 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Spring Valley runs at 292% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fertilizer and fertilizer materials merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Spring Valley: 6.4 TCR = 292% of Fertilizer and fertilizer materials merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Spring Valley safety composite

Spring Valley scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Spring Valley: 14.5 → 18.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 18.3 TCR · DART/TCR 2.28× in 2024

Spring Valley's TCR rose 3.8 from 14.5 in 2016 to 18.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Fostoria, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.4 · 292% of ind

  • DART 14.6 DART
  • RANK #32/35
  • PHOTO Montrose
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Montrose (0.0 TCR gap)

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Spring Valley in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Spring Valley averages 6.4 TCR (292% of the Fertilizer and fertilizer materials merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Spring Valley TCR series: 2016=14.5 · 2017=0 · 2019=6.1 · 2021=0 · 2022=6.1 · 2023=0 · 2024=18.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Spring Valley falls in its industry

1,202 Fertilizer and fertilizer mate establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 35 Fertilizer and fertilizer mate employers in Ohio.

Spring Valley (19 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Spring Valley
Spring Valley (19 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Spring Valley has fewer employees than the Fertilizer and fertilizer materials merc median and a higher 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2024 18.3 14.6 4 1 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 6.1 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 6.1 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 14.5 14.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · OH · Fostoria

1,202 Fertilizer and fertilizer materials merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 47 employers in Fostoria, OH · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Montrose 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Concentrates Inc. 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Devenish Nutrition LLC 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR NEW Cooperative, Inc. - Clare 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 514-NiSource-Fremont OH Ofc Serv 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Del-Co Water Company - 6658 Olentangy River Rd 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maronda Homes LLC of Ohio-Cincinnati Office 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dunlop & Johnston, Inc. 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Roppe Corporation 286 FTE
CITY-NEAR Good Shepherd Home 230 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fostoria Community Hospital 190 FTE
CITY-NEAR NOX US 169 FTE
NAT-TCR CH 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR At Home Stores #85 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Whaley Construction 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 58CR 6.4 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2017, 2016. 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.