Fertilizer and fertilizer materials merchant wholesalers · Tennessee

Tipton Farmes Cooperative-Fertilizer Plant

Name: Tipton Farmes Cooperative-Fertilizer Plant Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Covington, TN · ~18 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 6.3
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Tipton Farmes Cooperative-Fertilizer Plant runs at 284% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fertilizer and fertilizer materials merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Tipton Farmes Cooperative-Fertilizer Plant: 6.3 TCR = 284% of Fertilizer and fertilizer materials merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tipton Farmes Cooperative-Fertilizer Plant safety composite

Tipton Farmes Cooperative-Fertilizer Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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).

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 6.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

−25.0

2016→2019

Tipton Farmes Cooperative-Fertilizer Plant injury rate improved

Tipton Farmes Cooperative-Fertilizer Plant's TCR fell 25.0 from 25.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 25.0 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=25.0 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Covington, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.3 · 284% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #50/59
PHOTO Mitchell County Farm…
BOOK 4y book
INJ 7 inj
SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mitchell County Farm Supply Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Tipton Farmes Cooperative-Fertilizer Plant averages 6.3 TCR (284% of the Fertilizer and fertilizer materials merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Tipton Farmes Cooperative-Fertilizer Plant TCR series: 2016=25 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Tipton Farmes Cooperative-Fertilizer Plant falls in its industry

1,202 Fertilizer and fertilizer mate establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #50 safest of 59 Fertilizer and fertilizer mate employers in Tennessee.

Tipton Farmes Cooperative-Fertilizer Plant (18 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Tipton Farmes Cooperative-Fertilizer Plant 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
2019	0.0	0.0	0
2018	0.0	0.0	0
2017	0.0	0.0	0
2016	25.0	14.3	7

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · TN · Covington

1,202 Fertilizer and fertilizer materials merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 34 employers in Covington, TN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Mitchell County Farm Supply Inc	CAMILLA, GA	6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	El Centro	EL CENTRO, CA	6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	NEW Cooperative Inc. - Duncombe	DUNCOMBE, IA	6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Harrisburg Feed	HARRISBURG, OR	6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Halls Gin Company	HALLS	18 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Southwest Tennessee EMC - Atoka	ATOKA	18 FTE
STATE-SIZE	sbi Field Operations	MEMPHIS	18 FTE
STATE-SIZE	505	KNOXVILLE	18 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Covington	Covington	771 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Charms	Covington	365 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Baptist Memorial Hospital Tipton	Covington	339 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 93	Covington	307 FTE
NAT-TCR	Adorn Engineering Components 131	Mishawaka, IN	6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	1144 Routes 5 & 20	Waterloo, NY	6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Rantoul City Schools District #137	Rantoul, IL	6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Ivy Acres - NY	Calverton, NY	6.3 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.