Raw farm products (except field beans, grains) merchant wholesalers · Massachusetts

The Botanist, Inc.

Sterling, MA · ~75 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Botanist, Inc. runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Raw farm products (except field beans, grains) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

The Botanist, Inc.: 3.7 TCR = 168% of Raw farm products (except field beans, grains) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Botanist, Inc. safety composite

The Botanist, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

−4.1

2022→2024

The Botanist, Inc. injury rate improved

The Botanist, Inc.'s TCR fell 4.1 from 5.7 in 2022 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=5.7 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424590 · Sterling, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.7 · 168% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK P46
  • PHOTO Ironworks Manu/Cult
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ironworks Manu/Cult (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Botanist, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Botanist, Inc. averages 3.7 TCR (168% of the Raw farm products (except field beans, grains) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

The Botanist, Inc. TCR series: 2022=5.7 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 2.2

Where The Botanist, Inc. falls in its industry

54 Raw farm products (except fiel establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
The Botanist, Inc. (75 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate The Botanist, Inc.
The Botanist, Inc. (75 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 2.9

The Botanist, Inc. has more employees than the Raw farm products (except field beans, g median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2023 3.8 3.8 3 0 0
2022 5.7 4.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424590 · MA · Sterling

54 Raw farm products (except field beans, grains) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 14 employers in Sterling, MA · 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 Ironworks Manu/Cult 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greenleaf Gardens, LLC 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Liberty Natural Products, Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Down, Inc. 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE J.H. Lynch & Sons, Inc - Millbury 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE MP Masonry, Inc. 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Cooling & Heating 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pasek Security Company 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sterling Village, LLC 232 FTE
CITY-NEAR STMABerryGlobal 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR Laddawn, Inc. Sterling, MA 101 FTE
CITY-NEAR BIOMEDICAL POLYMERS INC 95 FTE
NAT-TCR Premium Hardwoods, Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR EnerSys Advanced Systems Inc 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Pet Factory, LLC 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR USA Dallas 3850 S 26th Ave 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Verdant Specialty Solutions University Park 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Apex Transportation, Inc. 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prestone Products Corporation 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Transbay Fire Protection Inc. 75 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. 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.