Sod farming · North Carolina

Bentwood Farms Inc.

Name: Bentwood Farms Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Monroe, NC · ~80 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.5
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Bentwood Farms Inc. runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Sod farming workplace, earning a grade B.

Bentwood Farms Inc.: 2.5 TCR = 55% of Sod farming BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bentwood Farms Inc. safety composite

Bentwood Farms Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% 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).

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 2.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

Bentwood Farms Inc.: 2.1 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 2.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.35× in 2024

Bentwood Farms Inc.'s TCR rose 0.5 from 2.1 in 2021 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Monroe, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 55% of ind

DART 0.9 DART
RANK #6/17
PHOTO Overdevest Nurseries…
BOOK 4y book
INJ 10 inj
SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Overdevest Nurseries, LP - Roadstown (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Bentwood Farms Inc. averages 2.5 TCR (55% of the Sod farming BLS benchmark).

Bentwood Farms Inc. TCR series: 2021=2.1 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Bentwood Farms Inc. falls in its industry

386 Sod farming establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 17 Sod farming employers in North Carolina.

Bentwood Farms Inc. (80 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Bentwood Farms Inc. has more 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
2024	2.6	0.9	3	0
2023	2.3	2.3	2	1
2022	2.9	2.9	3	0
2021	2.1	1.1	2	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · NC · Monroe

386 Sod farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 163 employers in Monroe, 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	Overdevest Nurseries, LP - Roadstown	BRIDGETON, NJ	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Green Velvet Sod Farms	BELLBROOK, OH	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	SMR Farms	LAKEWOOD RANCH, FL	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Palmer Westbrook Inc.	SMITH RIVER, CA	2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Tri- Hishtil 808241	MILLS RIVER	80 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Davidson Water, Inc.	LEXINGTON	80 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Beam Construction Company, Inc.	CHERRYVILLE	80 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Charles R. Underwood, Inc.	SANFORD	80 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Monroe Plant	Monroe	1,584 FTE
CITY-NEAR	0060-CHS Union	Monroe	1,214 FTE
CITY-NEAR	0060-Atrium Health Union	Monroe	1,147 FTE
CITY-NEAR	1108-Atrium Health Union (1108)	Monroe	1,041 FTE
NAT-TCR	Rochester Telephone Company	Rochester, IN	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Hydro Commerce	Commerce, TX	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	ERI Fresno, Suite 108	Fresno, CA	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Hancock Lumber Company	Kennebunk, ME	2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Copeland Precast	Denver, CO	80 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Captiva Containers	Miami, FL	80 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Capital Sales Company	Hazel Park, MI	80 FTE
NAT-SIZE	IBA Inc.	Sutton, MA	80 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. 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.