Sod farming · Georgia

Buy Sod USA - Soperton Sod Farm

Soperton, GA · ~24 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buy Sod USA - Soperton Sod Farm runs at 35% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Sod farming workplace, earning a grade A.

Buy Sod USA - Soperton Sod Farm: 1.6 TCR = 35% of Sod farming BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buy Sod USA - Soperton Sod Farm safety composite

Buy Sod USA - Soperton Sod Farm scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% 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)
A 1.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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→2023

Buy Sod USA - Soperton Sod Farm injury rate improved

Buy Sod USA - Soperton Sod Farm's TCR fell 4.8 from 4.8 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 4.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=4.8 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Soperton, GA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 35% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/10
  • PHOTO Losely
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Losely (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buy Sod USA - Soperton 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 - Soperton Sod Farm averages 1.6 TCR (35% 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 USA - Soperton Sod Farm TCR series: 2020=4.8 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 4.5

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

386 Sod farming establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 10 Sod farming employers in Georgia.

Buy Sod USA - Soperton Sod Farm (24 employees, TCR 1.6) 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 USA - Soperton Sod Farm
Buy Sod USA - Soperton Sod Farm (24 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Buy Sod USA - Soperton Sod Farm has fewer employees than the Sod farming median and a lower 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 4.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · GA · Soperton

386 Sod farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 5 employers in Soperton, GA · 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 Losely 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bell Nursery - Marydel 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Growers Transplanting 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Land's Palm Trees, Inc. 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE NG Turf LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pilgrim's Douglas Hatchery 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unlimited Contract Services - Zephyhills, FL 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roberts Timber Co Inc 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR LanzaJet 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR Treutlen County Health and Rehab 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR Treutlen County Health and Rehabilitation 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR Treutlen County Health & Rehabilitation 59 FTE
NAT-TCR O'Neill Super Foods 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR BT Syracuse 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Skyline Door & Hardware, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Holland Manufacturing Co., Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE JAT Trucking 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE 21st Century Scientific, Inc. 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Craftsmen Utility Trailer-Davenport 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grass Farm, William Y. Gil Inc. 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: 2023, 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.