Hydroponic crop farming · Arizona

Story of AZ - Watkins

Phoenix, AZ · ~62 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Story of AZ - Watkins runs at 67% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Hydroponic crop farming workplace, earning a grade B.

Story of AZ - Watkins: 3.0 TCR = 67% of Hydroponic crop farming BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Story of AZ - Watkins safety composite

Story of AZ - Watkins scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Story of AZ - Watkins: 2.8 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.08× in 2024

Story of AZ - Watkins's TCR rose 0.5 from 2.8 in 2023 to 3.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111419 · Phoenix, AZ AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.0 · 67% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #5/15
  • PHOTO Revolution Cannabis-…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Revolution Cannabis- Barry (AWH) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Story of AZ - Watkins in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Story of AZ - Watkins averages 3.0 TCR (67% of the Hydroponic crop farming BLS benchmark).

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

Story of AZ - Watkins TCR series: 2023=2.8 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Story of AZ - Watkins falls in its industry

251 Hydroponic crop farming establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 15 Hydroponic crop farming employers in Arizona.

Story of AZ - Watkins (62 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Story of AZ - Watkins
Story of AZ - Watkins (62 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Story of AZ - Watkins has fewer employees than the Hydroponic crop farming median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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
2024 3.3 3.3 2 0 0
2023 2.8 2.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111419 · AZ · Phoenix

251 Hydroponic crop farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 2,630 employers in Phoenix, AZ · 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 Revolution Cannabis- Barry (AWH) 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elkwood, VA 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR GS Ashley LLC 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Soli Organic Inc. - Arizona 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Taylor Morrison of Florida, Inc. 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE 8768-SRP NGS 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Phoenix Office 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE ASU Mill Avenue Garage 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maricopa County 15,504 FTE
CITY-NEAR Phoenix Children's Hospital 7,575 FTE
CITY-NEAR All Company 6,261 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030500 6,153 FTE
NAT-TCR Ct112 Haydon Kerk 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 116 Mason 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR M Health Clinic - Vadnais Hght 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Omni Shoreham Hotel 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE UH/OVPRI/OANRP 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anderson Heating and Cooling 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Calpipe Industries, LLC 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pdx Portland International Airport 62 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. 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.