Sod farming · North Carolina

Buy Sod - Sandhill

Eagle Springs, NC · ~29 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buy Sod - Sandhill runs at 113% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Sod farming workplace, earning a grade C.

Buy Sod - Sandhill: 5.1 TCR = 113% of Sod farming BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buy Sod - Sandhill safety composite

Buy Sod - Sandhill scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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).

D

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

−3.7

2023→2024

Buy Sod - Sandhill injury rate improved

Buy Sod - Sandhill's TCR fell 3.7 from 7.0 in 2023 to 3.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=7.0 · 2024=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Eagle Springs, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.1 · 113% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #10/17
  • PHOTO Treesap Farms LLC - …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Treesap Farms LLC - Bunnell (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buy Sod - Sandhill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buy Sod - Sandhill averages 5.1 TCR (113% 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 - Sandhill TCR series: 2023=7 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Buy Sod - Sandhill falls in its industry

386 Sod farming establishments

Safer than 47% 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 #10 safest of 17 Sod farming employers in North Carolina.

Buy Sod - Sandhill (29 employees, TCR 5.1) 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 - Sandhill
Buy Sod - Sandhill (29 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Buy Sod - Sandhill 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 3.2 3.2 1 0 0
2023 7.0 7.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · NC · Eagle Springs

386 Sod farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 5 employers in Eagle Springs, 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 Treesap Farms LLC - Bunnell 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR AMERICAN FARMS LLC 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Griggs Wholesale Gardens, Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Treeland BTN 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms - NCC 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cowans Ford 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Craven County Wood Energy 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brunswick Electric Membership Cooperative - 2 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Candor Feedmill 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sandhill Turf 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR John William Carter III 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Candor Growout 19 FTE
NAT-TCR Home Path Financial 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Appeeling Fruit Holdings, LLC. 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Khm Inc 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Blue Ridge Industries Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pioneer College Caterers, Inc. - Unit 028/McMurry University 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crotona Parkway West HDFC 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Williamson Development LLC 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Benning 29 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.