Potting soil manufacturing · Vermont

Vermont Compost Company

Montpelier, VT · ~24 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
21.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vermont Compost Company runs at 661% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Potting soil manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Vermont Compost Company: 21.8 TCR = 661% of Potting soil manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vermont Compost Company safety composite

Vermont Compost Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 21.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Vermont Compost Company: 15.1 → 26.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 26.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.61× in 2024

Vermont Compost Company's TCR rose 11.6 from 15.1 in 2021 to 26.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325314 · Montpelier, VT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 21.8 · 661% of ind

  • DART 13.3 DART
  • RANK P1
  • PHOTO Barr-Tech LLC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Barr-Tech LLC (0.7 TCR gap)

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Vermont Compost Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vermont Compost Company averages 21.8 TCR (661% of the Potting soil manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Vermont Compost Company TCR series: 2021=15.1 · 2022=21.6 · 2023=23.8 · 2024=26.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Vermont Compost Company falls in its industry

163 Potting soil manufacturing establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Vermont Compost Company (24 employees, TCR 21.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Vermont Compost Company
Vermont Compost Company (24 employees, TCR 21.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Vermont Compost Company has fewer employees than the Potting soil manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 26.7 13.3 6 0 0
2023 23.8 9.5 5 0 0
2022 21.6 4.3 5 0 0
2021 15.1 5.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325314 · VT · Montpelier

163 Potting soil manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,065 rated employers in Vermont with headcount on file · 18 employers in Montpelier, VT · 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 Barr-Tech LLC 21.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chemical Dynamics Inc. 22.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Milford Farms 17.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR McFarlane's Bark Inc 17.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Washington Electric Coop, Inc. - Garage 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE A.L. Tyler & Sons, Inc. 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE VT Office 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE N Clarendon 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR The State of Vermont 9,477 FTE
CITY-NEAR State of Vermont 9,450 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hunger Mountain Cooperative, Inc. 180 FTE
CITY-NEAR Green Mountain Behavior Consulting, Inc. 125 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 1097 21.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Green Valley Harvest, Inc. 21.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Norco #123 21.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Santa Cruz Grocery Outlet 21.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stetson Forest Products Inc. 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lmmm Houston #63, Ltd 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harris Welding and Machine 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE COB Enterprises of Louisiana 24 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, 2021. 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.