Vegetable and potato farming, vegetable (except potato) dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production · North Carolina

Bottomley Evergreens & Farms

Sparta, NC · ~626 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Bottomley Evergreens & Farms runs at 51% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Vegetable and potato farming, vegetable (except potato) dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production workplace, earning a grade B.

Bottomley Evergreens & Farms: 2.3 TCR = 51% of Vegetable and potato farming, vegetable (except potato) dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bottomley Evergreens & Farms safety composite

Bottomley Evergreens & Farms scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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).

C

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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%).

Bottomley Evergreens & Farms held a steady TCR band

Bottomley Evergreens & Farms's TCR held near 0.2 from 3.0 in 2021 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=3.0 · 2022=2.0 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111219 · Sparta, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 51% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Siri and Son Farms, …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 69 inj
  • SIZE ~626 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Siri and Son Farms, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bottomley Evergreens & Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bottomley Evergreens & Farms averages 2.3 TCR (51% of the Vegetable and potato farming, vegetable (except potato) dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

Bottomley Evergreens & Farms TCR series: 2021=3 · 2022=2 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Bottomley Evergreens & Farms falls in its industry

331 Vegetable and potato farming, establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Vegetable and potato farming, employers in North Carolina.

Bottomley Evergreens & Farms (626 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Bottomley Evergreens & Farms
Bottomley Evergreens & Farms (626 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Bottomley Evergreens & Farms has more employees than the Vegetable and potato farming, vegetable median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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 2.8 1.1 15 1 0
2023 1.3 1.0 10 0 0
2022 2.0 0.8 15 0 1
2021 3.0 0.6 29 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · NC · Sparta

331 Vegetable and potato farming, vegetable (except potato) dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 14 employers in Sparta, NC · 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 Siri and Son Farms, Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Broccoli 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bud of California Celery 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Patrick Family Farms LLC 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kinston 2 Packaged 626 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1420 LOWE S MID-ATLANTIC RDC 625 FTE
STATE-SIZE WFBMC - Lexington Medical Center 627 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maiden Upholstery Division 624 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plant 36-37 197 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkdale Mills, Inc. Plant 36-37 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alleghany Health 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amano Pioneer Eclipse 122 FTE
NAT-TCR Noble Excavating, Inc 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Aloe Vera of America,Inc- Dallas 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR RICHFIELD 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Pennington County Government Center 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE El Paso 626 FTE
NAT-SIZE Building 4 626 FTE
NAT-SIZE Case Farms Processing 626 FTE
NAT-SIZE B&D Industries 626 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.