Sod farming · Florida

Bethel Farms- Arcadia

Arcadia, FL · ~80 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bethel Farms- Arcadia runs at 156% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Sod farming workplace, earning a grade D.

Bethel Farms- Arcadia: 7.0 TCR = 156% of Sod farming BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bethel Farms- Arcadia safety composite

Bethel Farms- Arcadia scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.1

2018→2022

Bethel Farms- Arcadia injury rate improved

Bethel Farms- Arcadia's TCR fell 1.1 from 6.1 in 2018 to 5.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 9.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=6.1 · 2019=8.6 · 2020=9.8 · 2021=5.6 · 2022=5.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Arcadia, FL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.0 · 156% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #27/35
  • PHOTO Oregon
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Oregon (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bethel Farms- Arcadia in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bethel Farms- Arcadia averages 7.0 TCR (156% of the Sod farming BLS benchmark).

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

Bethel Farms- Arcadia TCR series: 2018=6.1 · 2019=8.6 · 2020=9.8 · 2021=5.6 · 2022=5 · BLS 4.5

Where Bethel Farms- Arcadia falls in its industry

386 Sod farming establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 35 Sod farming employers in Florida.

Bethel Farms- Arcadia (80 employees, TCR 7.0) 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 Bethel Farms- Arcadia
Bethel Farms- Arcadia (80 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Bethel Farms- Arcadia has more employees than the Sod farming 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
2022 5.0 5.0 3 0 0
2021 5.6 5.6 3 1 0
2020 9.8 8.7 5 4 0
2019 8.6 7.2 5 1 0
2018 6.1 0.8 7 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · FL · Arcadia

386 Sod farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 41 employers in Arcadia, FL · 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 Oregon 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Feeney's Wholesale Nursery 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Highline Nursery 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Agriland NURSERY, INC 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE AgMart Produce NFL 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE CB Central Broward Office 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Think Construction Services, LLC 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Willis A. Smith Construction, Inc. 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arcadia Office 2,476 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arcadia Hospice House 2,476 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 7023 954 FTE
CITY-NEAR 7023 922 FTE
NAT-TCR Supreme Cores Holdings, LLC. 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0297 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Avista Coeur d'Alene 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Seastrom Mfg. Co. Inc. 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ziyad Brothers Importing 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peak Resources-Gastonia 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Texas Fixtures and Interiors, Inc. 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.