Herbaceous perennial growing · New Hampshire

Van Berkum Nursery

Deerfeild, NH · ~36 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Van Berkum Nursery runs at 298% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Herbaceous perennial growing workplace, earning a grade F.

Van Berkum Nursery: 13.4 TCR = 298% of Herbaceous perennial growing BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Van Berkum Nursery safety composite

Van Berkum Nursery scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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).

F

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

Van Berkum Nursery: 18.4 → 94.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 429.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2019

Van Berkum Nursery's TCR rose 75.9 from 18.4 in 2016 to 94.3 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 429.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Deerfeild, NH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.4 · 298% of ind

  • DART 9.0 DART
  • RANK P4
  • PHOTO Clinton Nurseries
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Clinton Nurseries (0.1 TCR gap)

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Van Berkum Nursery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Van Berkum Nursery averages 13.4 TCR (298% of the Herbaceous perennial growing BLS benchmark).

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

Van Berkum Nursery TCR series: 2016=18.4 · 2017=8.4 · 2018=429.6 · 2019=94.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Van Berkum Nursery falls in its industry

386 Herbaceous perennial growing establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Van Berkum Nursery (36 employees, TCR 13.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Van Berkum Nursery
Van Berkum Nursery (36 employees, TCR 13.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Van Berkum Nursery has fewer employees than the Herbaceous perennial growing median and a higher 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
2019 94.3 9.0 21 0 0
2018 429.6 429.6 2 0 0
2017 8.4 4.2 2 0 0
2016 18.4 13.8 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · NH · Deerfeild

386 Herbaceous perennial growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,718 rated employers in New Hampshire with headcount on file · 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 Clinton Nurseries 13.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SAUVIE BAILEY NURSERIES INC 13.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nursery 13.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR White Flower Farm Morris 13.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Main Office 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trumbull-Nelson Construction Company 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE John L. Carter Sprinkler Co., Inc. 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Builders Installed Products Vermont 36 FTE
NAT-TCR Rockford IL Warehouse 13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Adult Day Services 13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Fre 19 13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Martin County Highway Dept 13.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Franklin Office 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE 19th #1 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tower 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prairie Hills Des Moines 36 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: 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.