Seeds (e.g., field, flower, garden) merchant wholesalers · Kansas

Star Seed, Osborne

Osborne, KS · ~41 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Star Seed, Osborne runs at 60% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Seeds (e.g., field, flower, garden) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Star Seed, Osborne: 1.3 TCR = 60% of Seeds (e.g., field, flower, garden) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Star Seed, Osborne safety composite

Star Seed, Osborne scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

Star Seed, Osborne: 0.0 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.76× in 2024

Star Seed, Osborne's TCR rose 2.3 from 0.0 in 2018 to 2.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Osborne, KS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.3 · 60% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #5/41
  • PHOTO 81-20 Randolph
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 81-20 Randolph (0.0 TCR gap)

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Star Seed, Osborne in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Star Seed, Osborne averages 1.3 TCR (60% of the Seeds (e.g., field, flower, garden) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Star Seed, Osborne TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=2.8 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=4.2 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Star Seed, Osborne falls in its industry

1,202 Seeds (e.g., field, flower, ga establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 41 Seeds (e.g., field, flower, ga employers in Kansas.

Star Seed, Osborne (41 employees, TCR 1.3) 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 Star Seed, Osborne
Star Seed, Osborne (41 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Star Seed, Osborne has more employees than the Seeds (e.g., field, flower, garden) merc 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2024 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2023 4.2 0.0 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · KS · Osborne

1,202 Seeds (e.g., field, flower, garden) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 5 employers in Osborne, KS · 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 81-20 Randolph 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Douglas IL 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greenpoint Ag 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR All Pro Horticulture #433 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kinsley Feeders, LLC 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Salina Service Center 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kansas City Sheeting & Shoring 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Griffith Steel Erection, Inc. 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Osborne County Memorial Hospital 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview Health & Rehabilitation Center, LLC 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hardman Wholesale, LLC 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Solomon River Genetics, LLC. 18 FTE
NAT-TCR ECO1 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Live Office 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR ABERDEEN 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Avera Health Avera Queen of Peace Campus 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE PDK Construction 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Santa Fe Springs, CA Shoemaker 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE 50010 - CAPSTONE CVS La Habra CA 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE 50094 - Capstone UNFI Gilroy 41 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.