Sod farming · California

American Sod Farms

Escondido, CA · ~20 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

American Sod Farms runs at 74% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Sod farming workplace, earning a grade B.

American Sod Farms: 3.3 TCR = 74% of Sod farming BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

American Sod Farms safety composite

American Sod Farms scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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%).

American Sod Farms held a steady TCR band

American Sod Farms's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 10.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=0.0 · 2022=10.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Escondido, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.3 · 74% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #26/120
  • PHOTO Dewar Nurseries, Inc…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dewar Nurseries, Inc. Mount Dora (0.0 TCR gap)

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American Sod Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows American Sod Farms averages 3.3 TCR (74% of the Sod farming BLS benchmark).

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

American Sod Farms TCR series: 2019=0 · 2022=10 · 2023=0 · BLS 4.5

Where American Sod Farms falls in its industry

386 Sod farming establishments

Safer than 69% 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 #26 safest of 120 Sod farming employers in California.

American Sod Farms (20 employees, TCR 3.3) 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 American Sod Farms
American Sod Farms (20 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

American Sod Farms has fewer employees than the Sod farming median and a lower 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 10.0 10.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · CA · Escondido

386 Sod farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 244 employers in Escondido, 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 Dewar Nurseries, Inc. Mount Dora 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Foertmeyer & Sons Greenhouse 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR L E Cooke Co 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4605_10312 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sills Farms, Inc. 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE F A Maggiore & Sons, LLC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE CALMEX CONTRACTING INC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Velvet Antler Ranch LLC 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA Escondido 4,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palomar Medical Center Escondido 3,031 FTE
CITY-NEAR Escondido CA 1,546 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bergelectric Corp. CA 1,279 FTE
NAT-TCR Super Save 478 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Kreider Center 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Compassus - Memphis 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Teays Valley Hospital 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Southern States Mount Airy Coop 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE PHA - Roosevelt Homes, Management, Maintenance 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schmitz Grafton/Port Washington 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1226 43 Liberty Drive - Community Connec 20 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: 2023, 2022, 2019. 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.