Sod farming · North Carolina

Buy Sod - Leggett

Tarboro, NC · ~18 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buy Sod - Leggett runs at 184% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Sod farming workplace, earning a grade D.

Buy Sod - Leggett: 8.3 TCR = 184% of Sod farming BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buy Sod - Leggett safety composite

Buy Sod - Leggett scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

F

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 16.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Buy Sod - Leggett: 0.0 → 16.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 16.6 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

Buy Sod - Leggett's TCR rose 16.6 from 0.0 in 2023 to 16.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Tarboro, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.3 · 184% of ind

  • DART 16.6 DART
  • RANK #13/17
  • PHOTO KCK Farms LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: KCK Farms LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buy Sod - Leggett in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buy Sod - Leggett averages 8.3 TCR (184% of the Sod farming BLS benchmark).

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

Buy Sod - Leggett TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=16.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Buy Sod - Leggett falls in its industry

386 Sod farming establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 17 Sod farming employers in North Carolina.

Buy Sod - Leggett (18 employees, TCR 8.3) 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 Buy Sod - Leggett
Buy Sod - Leggett (18 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Buy Sod - Leggett has fewer 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
2024 16.6 16.6 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · NC · Tarboro

386 Sod farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 46 employers in Tarboro, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR KCK Farms LLC 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fruit World Nursery, Inc. 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pyramid Flowers 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Pinery LLC 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pikeville 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sweet Potato Packing House 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Laurinburg 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE HILL TOP FARMS INC 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR ECU Health Edgecombe Hospital 615 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vidant Edgecombe Hospital 549 FTE
CITY-NEAR Keihin Carolina System Technology 464 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hitachi Astemo Greenfield LLC 348 FTE
NAT-TCR General Trading Co. Inc. 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Milwaukee - Pipe 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mercy Rehab Hospital Oklahoma City South 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Markley Operator LLC 8.3 TCR

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.