Grass seed farming · North Carolina

Buy Sod USA, LLC

Pinehurst, NC · ~114 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buy Sod USA, LLC runs at 41% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Grass seed farming workplace, earning a grade A.

Buy Sod USA, LLC: 1.8 TCR = 41% of Grass seed farming BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buy Sod USA, LLC safety composite

Buy Sod USA, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% 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

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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

−72.1

2018→2022

Buy Sod USA, LLC injury rate improved

Buy Sod USA, LLC's TCR fell 72.1 from 72.1 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 72.1 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=72.1 · 2019=5.5 · 2020=0.0 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111998 · Pinehurst, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.8 · 41% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/9
  • PHOTO Pioneer Hi-Bred Inte…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~114 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buy Sod USA, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buy Sod USA, LLC averages 1.8 TCR (41% 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, LLC TCR series: 2018=72.1 · 2019=5.5 · 2020=0 · 2022=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Buy Sod USA, LLC falls in its industry

128 Grass seed farming establishments

Safer than 88% 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 #2 safest of 9 Grass seed farming employers in North Carolina.

Buy Sod USA, LLC (114 employees, TCR 1.8) 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Buy Sod USA, LLC
Buy Sod USA, LLC (114 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 64 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Buy Sod USA, LLC has more 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 5.5 5.5 5 0 0
2018 72.1 52.4 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111998 · NC · Pinehurst

128 Grass seed farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 22 employers in Pinehurst, 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 Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hop Field 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trout Lake Farm East Farm 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sandhill Turf 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cliffside Steam Station 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pike Telecom and Renewables Pennsylvania Statewide Operations 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE Turner Asphalt LLC 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE Superior Mechanical Inc 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR Moore Regional Hospital 3,531 FTE
CITY-NEAR RPG, Co. LLC 487 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sandhills Community College 445 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6921-00080 217 FTE
NAT-TCR PSSI - 0085 Simmons Foods Inc. - Van Buren 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sark Wire Corp Georgia 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 2904-SAS-WV 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR USA Corporate; Torrington 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Vibra Rehabilitation Hospital of Amarillo, LLC d/b/a Vibra Rehabilitation Hospital of Amarillo 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Y Foods, Inc. Lee 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Y Foods, Inc. Newtown 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE BOS-ODFL 114 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. 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.