Tomato farming, grown under cover · Kentucky

AppHarvest Morehead Farm LLC.

Morehead, KY · ~21 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AppHarvest Morehead Farm LLC. runs at 288% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Tomato farming, grown under cover workplace, earning a grade F.

AppHarvest Morehead Farm LLC.: 12.9 TCR = 288% of Tomato farming, grown under cover BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AppHarvest Morehead Farm LLC. safety composite

AppHarvest Morehead Farm LLC. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

TCR Δ

−16.0

2020→2021

AppHarvest Morehead Farm LLC. injury rate improved

AppHarvest Morehead Farm LLC.'s TCR fell 16.0 from 21.0 in 2020 to 4.9 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 21.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=21.0 · 2021=4.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111419 · Morehead, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.9 · 288% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Parallel
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Parallel (0.3 TCR gap)

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AppHarvest Morehead Farm LLC. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AppHarvest Morehead Farm LLC. averages 12.9 TCR (288% of the Tomato farming, grown under cover BLS benchmark).

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

AppHarvest Morehead Farm LLC. TCR series: 2020=21 · 2021=4.9 · BLS 4.5

Where AppHarvest Morehead Farm LLC. falls in its industry

251 Tomato farming, grown under co establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Tomato farming, grown under co employers in Kentucky.

AppHarvest Morehead Farm LLC. (21 employees, TCR 12.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate AppHarvest Morehead Farm LLC.
AppHarvest Morehead Farm LLC. (21 employees, TCR 12.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.9

AppHarvest Morehead Farm LLC. has fewer employees than the Tomato farming, grown under cover 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
2021 4.9 3.1 16 0 0
2020 21.0 13.1 7 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111419 · KY · Morehead

251 Tomato farming, grown under cover employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 44 employers in Morehead, KY · 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 Parallel 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rocky Mountain Tillage, Steele, LLC 13.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wegmans Organic Farm ORGF 13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR PurePenn d/b/a Trulieve 12.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Reed Minerals - Drakesboro 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hardinsburg Office 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Madisonville - Electric Distribution 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Magnolia Station 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Claire Medical Center 1,328 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Claire HealthCare 1,237 FTE
CITY-NEAR SRG Global Trim LLC 538 FTE
CITY-NEAR DC205 DC205 MOREHEAD KY 537 FTE
NAT-TCR Earl May Seed & Nursery Distribution Center 12.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Crosstex - PA 12.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Challenger Pallet & Supply Inc. Idaho 12.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Primrose Lease Management LLC dba Primrose of Sioux Falls 12.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Saraland Store 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ms. Carita Safetruck, Inc. 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE PCS - North Highlands 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE PCS Fresno 21 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: 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.