Sod farming · Texas

Brazos River Sod Farm

Navasota, TX · ~30 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Brazos River Sod Farm runs at 41% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Sod farming workplace, earning a grade A.

Brazos River Sod Farm: 1.9 TCR = 41% of Sod farming BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Brazos River Sod Farm safety composite

Brazos River Sod Farm scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

Brazos River Sod Farm held a steady TCR band

Brazos River Sod Farm's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=8.4 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=2.7 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Navasota, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.9 · 41% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/18
  • PHOTO Fannin Growing
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fannin Growing (0.0 TCR gap)

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Brazos River Sod Farm in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Brazos River Sod Farm averages 1.9 TCR (41% of the Sod farming BLS benchmark).

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

Brazos River Sod Farm TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=8.4 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=2.7 · 2022=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Brazos River Sod Farm falls in its industry

386 Sod farming establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 18 Sod farming employers in Texas.

Brazos River Sod Farm (30 employees, TCR 1.9) 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 Brazos River Sod Farm
Brazos River Sod Farm (30 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Brazos River Sod Farm 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 8.4 0.0 3 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · TX · Navasota

386 Sod farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 38 employers in Navasota, TX · 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 Fannin Growing 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR RCB Ventures, LLC dba Tri-Tex Grass 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buy Sod - Nashville 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Homestead 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Coyote Lake Feeders LLC 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dimmitt Feedyard 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Green Plains Cattle Company LLC - Hereford 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Quality Beef Producers 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grant Prideco Navasota 366 FTE
CITY-NEAR STgenetics-Navasota 224 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ellwood Texas forge Navasota 201 FTE
CITY-NEAR MidSouth Electric Co-op 177 FTE
NAT-TCR 8807822-Dhl - Ga 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Town of Clinton General Government 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 6935-ELECT-ELECTIONS 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 1325 - Anchorage NE 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Iadme - Des Moines 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE HG839 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Columbus Equipment Company-Richfield Branch 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE MCCHC-Anderson 30 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.