Sod farming · California

A-G Sod Farms, Inc

Palmdale, CA · ~24 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

A-G Sod Farms, Inc runs at 129% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Sod farming workplace, earning a grade D.

A-G Sod Farms, Inc: 5.8 TCR = 129% 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 17%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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: 3.9 → 8.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.96× in 2024

A-G Sod Farms, Inc's TCR rose 4.5 from 3.9 in 2017 to 8.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 129% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #72/120
  • PHOTO HOME NURSERY
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HOME NURSERY (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 5.8 TCR (129% 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=3.9 · 2020=0 · 2022=6.9 · 2023=9.9 · 2024=8.4 · BLS 4.5

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

386 Sod farming establishments

Safer than 36% 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 #72 safest of 120 Sod farming employers in California.

A-G Sod Farms, Inc (24 employees, TCR 5.8) 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 (24 employees, TCR 5.8) 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 8.4 5.6 3 0 0
2023 9.9 6.6 3 0 0
2022 6.9 3.4 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 3.9 3.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · CA · Palmdale

386 Sod farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 135 employers in Palmdale, 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 HOME NURSERY 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Woodburn Nursery & Azaleas, Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bradshaw 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR LATHAMS NURSERY INC. - MONROE, NC 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Agro-Jal Farming Enterprises 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE MTD Farms 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marc Pura Ranch, LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Costa Farms 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGAS-A502 5,323 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-06 4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation Palmdale Campus (1513) 3,420 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 612 2,127 FTE
NAT-TCR Beta Steel 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR A to Z Drying, Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sam Rust Seafood, Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR FCI 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hoosier Metal Form, Inc. 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE S07246 - Detroit Container Shop 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE S06151 - WMSS Eli Lilly 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE S04121 - Laraway RDF 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, 2020, 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.