FERTILIZER MFG. · Florida

Superior Mulch Inc.

Lake Worth, FL · ~44 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Superior Mulch Inc. runs at 93% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical FERTILIZER MFG. workplace, earning a grade C.

Superior Mulch Inc.: 3.1 TCR = 93% of FERTILIZER MFG. BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Superior Mulch Inc. safety composite

Superior Mulch Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−1.8

2016→2020

Superior Mulch Inc. injury rate improved

Superior Mulch Inc.'s TCR fell 1.8 from 3.2 in 2016 to 1.4 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.3 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.2 · 2017=3.4 · 2018=3.0 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325311 · Lake Worth, FL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 93% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #3/7
  • PHOTO Koch Fertilizer Fort…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Koch Fertilizer Fort Dodge (0.3 TCR gap)

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Superior Mulch Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Superior Mulch Inc. averages 3.1 TCR (93% of the FERTILIZER MFG. BLS benchmark).

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

Superior Mulch Inc. TCR series: 2016=3.2 · 2017=3.4 · 2018=3 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=1.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Superior Mulch Inc. falls in its industry

85 FERTILIZER MFG. establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 7 FERTILIZER MFG. employers in Florida.

Superior Mulch Inc. (44 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Superior Mulch Inc.
Superior Mulch Inc. (44 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Superior Mulch Inc. has fewer employees than the FERTILIZER MFG. median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2019 4.3 4.3 3 0 0
2018 3.0 3.0 2 0 0
2017 3.4 3.4 2 0 0
2016 3.2 3.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325311 · FL · Lake Worth

85 FERTILIZER MFG. employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 87 employers in Lake Worth, FL · 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 Koch Fertilizer Fort Dodge 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR PAN AMERICAN GRAIN COMPANY-FERTILIZER 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Andersons Inc. - Upper Sandusky 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sergeant Bluff, IA - PN 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE HICKORY GROVE 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Florida Aquatic Plant Nursery LLC 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE PRV Plant Riviera 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Hope Power Company 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tower Eight Staffing Solutions dba Labor For Hire - Lake Worth 622 FTE
CITY-NEAR Select Specialty Hospital - Palm Beach, Inc 261 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eastern Metal Supply Lake Worth 257 FTE
CITY-NEAR LFB American Plasma-Greenacres 251 FTE
NAT-TCR Speirs 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 209 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 131 Chambersbrook Road 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hope Network SE 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ross store 1144 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goodwill Industries of Denver Castle Rock 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 843 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 1638 44 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, 2018, 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.