Sod farming · Tennessee

Benton

Benton, TN · ~36 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Benton runs at 109% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Sod farming workplace, earning a grade C.

Benton: 4.9 TCR = 109% of Sod farming BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Benton safety composite

Benton scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

Benton: 4.6 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Benton's TCR rose 0.7 from 4.6 in 2023 to 5.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Benton, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.9 · 109% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P50
  • PHOTO Steele Valley
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Steele Valley (0.0 TCR gap)

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Benton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Benton averages 4.9 TCR (109% of the Sod farming BLS benchmark).

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

Benton TCR series: 2023=4.6 · 2024=5.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Benton falls in its industry

386 Sod farming establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Benton (36 employees, TCR 4.9) 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 Benton
Benton (36 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Benton 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
2024 5.3 0.0 1 0 1
2023 4.6 2.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · TN · Benton

386 Sod farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 3 employers in Benton, TN · 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 Steele Valley 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alexander Labor Inc 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR BIZON NURSERY LLC 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Cottage Gardens Inc. 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Waynesboro Office, 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0000000931 WATER/SEWER-WATER FCLTY MAINT 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chris Woods Construction Company, Inc. 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jenkins & Stiles, LLC 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR CG Roxane LLC Benton ASW 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Forge School 44 FTE
NAT-TCR Transpro Inc. 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Rockwall Nursing Care Center 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Omaha Ne - 248 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Dee Zee Extrusion 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Georgia Architectural Stone, Inc. 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Andersons Inc. - Upper Sandusky 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mechanical Products LLC 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE STD Inc 36 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. 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.