Nursery stock growing · Arizona

Verde River Growers, LLC

Cottonwood, AZ · ~36 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Verde River Growers, LLC runs at 144% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Nursery stock growing workplace, earning a grade D.

Verde River Growers, LLC: 6.5 TCR = 144% of Nursery stock growing BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Verde River Growers, LLC safety composite

Verde River Growers, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

Verde River Growers, LLC: 3.8 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Verde River Growers, LLC's TCR rose 3.6 from 3.8 in 2020 to 7.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Cottonwood, AZ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 144% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/14
  • PHOTO Encinal 2
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Encinal 2 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Verde River Growers, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Verde River Growers, LLC averages 6.5 TCR (144% of the Nursery stock growing BLS benchmark).

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

Verde River Growers, LLC TCR series: 2020=3.8 · 2021=7.3 · 2023=7.4 · 2024=7.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Verde River Growers, LLC falls in its industry

386 Nursery stock growing establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 14 Nursery stock growing employers in Arizona.

Verde River Growers, LLC (36 employees, TCR 6.5) 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 Verde River Growers, LLC
Verde River Growers, LLC (36 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Verde River Growers, LLC has fewer employees than the Nursery stock 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
2024 7.5 0.0 1 1 0
2023 7.4 7.4 2 0 0
2021 7.3 7.3 2 0 0
2020 3.8 3.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · AZ · Cottonwood

386 Nursery stock growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 29 employers in Cottonwood, AZ · 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 Encinal 2 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dewar Nurseries, Inc. Apopka 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR TreeSource Nursery 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Monrovia Nursery - Woodlake 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fondomonte CA - Blythe Farm 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dynapac Harvesting, Inc. (AZ) 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Todd Whittaker Drywall Inc 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Banner Gateway Expansion 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Cottonwood 390 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1299 336 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1299 336 FTE
CITY-NEAR SWY-0017-0017-02052 FAC-02052-COTTONWOOD-AZ 142 FTE
NAT-TCR Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of City View 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR NFI Interactive Logistics LLC-398 ANTRIM COMMONS DR 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Donald R Frantz Concrete Construction, LLC 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR MAP Automotive Warehouse of Chicago 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE RESCO Electronics Madison 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Truck Bodies & Repair, Inc 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE D'Agostino #827 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gristedes #601 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: 2024, 2023, 2021, 2020. 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.