Sweet potato farming, field and seed potato production · North Carolina

Barnes Farming Corp

Name: Barnes Farming Corp Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Spring Hope, NC · ~369 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 2.0
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 1
Fatality

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The verdict

Barnes Farming Corp runs at 44% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Sweet potato farming, field and seed potato production workplace, earning a grade A.

Barnes Farming Corp: 2.0 TCR = 44% of Sweet potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Barnes Farming Corp safety composite

Barnes Farming Corp scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 5%), 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).

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers
DART rate: C 1.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers
Fatalities: F 1

Safer than 5% 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

−0.9

2017→2024

Barnes Farming Corp injury rate improved

Barnes Farming Corp's TCR fell 0.9 from 2.5 in 2017 to 1.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.5 · 2018=1.4 · 2019=1.3 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=1.5 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111211 · Spring Hope, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 2.0 · 44% of ind

DART 1.3 DART
RANK #2/7
PHOTO Staples
BOOK 8y book
INJ 69 inj
SIZE ~369 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Staples (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Barnes Farming Corp averages 2.0 TCR (44% of the Sweet potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS benchmark).

Barnes Farming Corp TCR series: 2017=2.5 · 2018=1.4 · 2019=1.3 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=1.5 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=1.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Barnes Farming Corp falls in its industry

153 Sweet potato farming, field an establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 7 Sweet potato farming, field an employers in North Carolina.

Barnes Farming Corp (369 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Barnes Farming Corp has more employees than the Sweet potato farming, field and seed pot median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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	1.5	1.3	4	2	0
2023	3.2	2.8	12	4	1
2022	1.9	1.9	9	0	0
2021	1.5	0.6	7	0	0
2020	2.6	0.8	13	0	0
2019	1.3	0.7	5	1	0
2018	1.4	1.0	7	0	0
2017	2.5	2.5	12	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111211 · NC · Spring Hope

153 Sweet potato farming, field and seed potato production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 5 employers in Spring Hope, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Staples	STAPLES, MN	2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	TMM Farms, Inc.	IMPERIAL, NE	1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Savage Farms Inc.	DEERFIELD, MA	2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Farm Technology Corporation Fram	MOSCA, CO	2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Sandvik Mebane (Holding/Coromant)	MEBANE	369 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WM 4224	CONOVER	369 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WM 1348	WILMINGTON	369 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Schneider Electric Knightdale	KNIGHTDALE	369 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Edwards, Inc.	Spring Hope	534 FTE
CITY-NEAR	1461	Spring Hope	55 FTE
CITY-NEAR	01461 - STORE # 1461 SPRING HOPE	Spring Hope	54 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Belt Concepts of America	Spring Hope	36 FTE
NAT-TCR	H.T. Lyons, Inc.	Allentown, PA	2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Dane County	Madison, WI	2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	St Joseph Purina Feed Mill	St Joseph, MO	2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Bobby Lashley Corporation	Woodstock, GA	2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Lafayette Venetian Blind, Inc.	West Lafayette, IN	369 FTE
NAT-SIZE	1138 Pine St	Burlington, VT	369 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Pharmavite, LLC	San Fernando, CA	369 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Rend Lake College	Ina, IL	369 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.