Grass seed farming · Tennessee

Buy Sod USA - Nashville Sod Farm

Eagleville, TN · ~24 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buy Sod USA - Nashville Sod Farm runs at 160% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grass seed farming workplace, earning a grade D.

Buy Sod USA - Nashville Sod Farm: 7.2 TCR = 160% of Grass seed farming BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buy Sod USA - Nashville Sod Farm safety composite

Buy Sod USA - Nashville Sod Farm scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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 USA - Nashville Sod Farm: 5.8 → 8.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 8.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.19× in 2022

Buy Sod USA - Nashville Sod Farm's TCR rose 2.8 from 5.8 in 2020 to 8.6 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111998 · Eagleville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.2 · 160% of ind

  • DART 8.6 DART
  • RANK P31
  • PHOTO Sunray Farms LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sunray Farms LLC (0.2 TCR gap)

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Buy Sod USA - Nashville 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 - Nashville Sod Farm averages 7.2 TCR (160% 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 - Nashville Sod Farm TCR series: 2020=5.8 · 2022=8.6 · BLS 4.5

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

128 Grass seed farming establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Buy Sod USA - Nashville Sod Farm (24 employees, TCR 7.2) 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 - Nashville Sod Farm
Buy Sod USA - Nashville Sod Farm (24 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 64 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Buy Sod USA - Nashville Sod Farm has fewer employees than the Grass seed farming median and a higher 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 8.6 8.6 2 0 0
2020 5.8 2.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111998 · TN · Eagleville

128 Grass seed farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 4 employers in Eagleville, TN · 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 Sunray Farms LLC 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR CLF-Stable, LLC 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hollistion, MA 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farm and Ranch Management Services 7.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE RIVERSIDE FUQUA FARMS LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Warren-Viola Utility District 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE JOB 268BG Rutherford County 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE C.K. Masonry Co., Inc 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wastequip Eagleville 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buy Sod - Nashville 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rutherford-Eagleville 25 FTE
NAT-TCR Santa Cruz Bicycles 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Northern Colorado Rehabilitation Hospital Inc 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Statewide Harvesting & Hauling, LLC 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-ABS-0029-0028-00148 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mizner Place 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Franklin Trucking Company 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Handyman services 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kiln Direct LLC 24 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. 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.