Farm supplies merchant wholesalers · Indiana

Tipton - US - Quality

Tipton, IN · ~27 workers · 2 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

Tipton - US - Quality runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Farm supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Tipton - US - Quality: 3.7 TCR = 168% of Farm supplies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tipton - US - Quality safety composite

Tipton - US - Quality scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Tipton - US - Quality: 0.0 → 7.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Tipton - US - Quality's TCR rose 7.4 from 0.0 in 2021 to 7.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Tipton, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.7 · 168% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #18/38
  • PHOTO Bissett Nursery
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bissett Nursery (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tipton - US - Quality in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tipton - US - Quality averages 3.7 TCR (168% of the Farm supplies merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Tipton - US - Quality TCR series: 2021=0 · 2024=7.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Tipton - US - Quality falls in its industry

1,202 Farm supplies merchant wholesa establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 38 Farm supplies merchant wholesa employers in Indiana.

Tipton - US - Quality (27 employees, TCR 3.7) 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 Tipton - US - Quality
Tipton - US - Quality (27 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Tipton - US - Quality has fewer employees than the Farm supplies merchant wholesalers 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2024 7.4 0.0 1 1 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · IN · Tipton

1,202 Farm supplies merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 31 employers in Tipton, IN · 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 Bissett Nursery 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sunrise Cooperative - Uniopolis 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jay-Mar, Inc 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR JR Simplot Company-SGS Royal City 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fischer Seeds 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Strauss Feed Mill 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE National Fuel Production of Michigan 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE National Energy of McBain 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tipton Transmission Plant 677 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tipton Hospital 319 FTE
CITY-NEAR Park 100 Foods Tipton 243 FTE
CITY-NEAR Indiana University HealthTipton Hospital 201 FTE
NAT-TCR 30400 Capstone - Dollar General Jonesville Sc 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 10294 Eugene 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Pinnacle Club 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Southeast Georgia Brunswick Campus - Laundry 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Marquette 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Laface Flooring LLC 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE MCO-FFM 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Palihotel Westwood Village 27 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, 2021. 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.