Sod farming · California

A-G Sod Farms, Inc.

Lodi, CA · ~23 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

A-G Sod Farms, Inc. runs at 227% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sod farming workplace, earning a grade F.

A-G Sod Farms, Inc.: 10.2 TCR = 227% of Sod farming BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

A-G Sod Farms, Inc. safety composite

A-G Sod Farms, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

A-G Sod Farms, Inc.: 4.2 → 12.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 17.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.79× in 2024

A-G Sod Farms, Inc.'s TCR rose 7.9 from 4.2 in 2017 to 12.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 17.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Lodi, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.2 · 227% of ind

  • DART 8.1 DART
  • RANK #104/120
  • PHOTO Holiday Tree Farms, …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Holiday Tree Farms, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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A-G Sod Farms, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows A-G Sod Farms, Inc. averages 10.2 TCR (227% of the Sod farming BLS benchmark).

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

A-G Sod Farms, Inc. TCR series: 2017=4.2 · 2018=8.5 · 2022=8.5 · 2023=17.6 · 2024=12.2 · BLS 4.5

Where A-G Sod Farms, Inc. falls in its industry

386 Sod farming establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #104 safest of 120 Sod farming employers in California.

A-G Sod Farms, Inc. (23 employees, TCR 10.2) 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 A-G Sod Farms, Inc.
A-G Sod Farms, Inc. (23 employees, TCR 10.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

A-G Sod Farms, Inc. has fewer employees than the Sod farming 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 12.2 8.1 3 0 0
2023 17.6 17.6 4 0 0
2022 8.5 8.5 2 0 0
2018 8.5 8.5 2 0 0
2017 4.2 4.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · CA · Lodi

386 Sod farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 140 employers in Lodi, CA · 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 Holiday Tree Farms, Inc. 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Perennial Favorites 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nursery Field 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flying W Cattle Company 10.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE James Diedrich Farms 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-Fanucchi Farms,LLC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE KAN2 - 04 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kyer Farms 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Perez Farming Services Inc. 1,145 FTE
CITY-NEAR 9292-AHLM001 - HOSPITAL 1,030 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-223 910 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 592 890 FTE
NAT-TCR Culligan - Minnetonka 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR NPC South Inc. Plant 1 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR E A Sween Company-Denver 7/11 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Scottsbluff Nebraska Facility 10.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Salina 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clauss Construction Las Vegas 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3050 Keystone E. Peoria 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Robbinsville, NC 23 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, 2018, 2017. 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.