Grass seed farming · North Carolina

Buy Sod USA - Leggett Sod Farm

Tarboro, NC · ~19 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buy Sod USA - Leggett Sod Farm runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Grass seed farming workplace, earning a grade B.

Buy Sod USA - Leggett Sod Farm: 2.4 TCR = 53% of Grass seed farming BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buy Sod USA - Leggett Sod Farm safety composite

Buy Sod USA - Leggett Sod Farm scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% 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).

C

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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

−4.8

2020→2022

Buy Sod USA - Leggett Sod Farm injury rate improved

Buy Sod USA - Leggett Sod Farm's TCR fell 4.8 from 4.8 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 4.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=4.8 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111998 · Tarboro, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 53% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/9
  • PHOTO Capitol Farms, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Capitol Farms, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buy Sod USA - Leggett Sod Farm in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buy Sod USA - Leggett Sod Farm averages 2.4 TCR (53% of the Grass seed farming BLS benchmark).

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

Buy Sod USA - Leggett Sod Farm TCR series: 2020=4.8 · 2022=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Buy Sod USA - Leggett Sod Farm falls in its industry

128 Grass seed farming establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 9 Grass seed farming employers in North Carolina.

Buy Sod USA - Leggett Sod Farm (19 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 64 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Buy Sod USA - Leggett Sod Farm
Buy Sod USA - Leggett Sod Farm (19 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 64 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Buy Sod USA - Leggett Sod Farm has fewer employees than the Grass seed farming median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 4.8 4.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111998 · NC · Tarboro

128 Grass seed 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 Capitol Farms, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brulotte Farms, Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Resinate, Inc. - Douglas 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meadow Ridge Farms Inc. 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Turf Today Inc. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE A And A Farms, Inc. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Custom Shutters, INC 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Custom Shutter, INC 19 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 Agri Supply of Florence 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR YMCA Prince George's County 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Epiroc Drilling Solutions - Garland PC 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Gavilon Grain - Amarillo 2.4 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: 2022, 2020. 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.