Sod farming · Texas

Cannonade Sod Farm

Gonzalez, TX · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cannonade Sod Farm runs at 57% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Sod farming workplace, earning a grade B.

Cannonade Sod Farm: 2.6 TCR = 57% of Sod farming BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cannonade Sod Farm safety composite

Cannonade Sod Farm scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

Cannonade Sod Farm: 0.0 → 5.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 5.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2017

Cannonade Sod Farm's TCR rose 5.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 5.1 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Gonzalez, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 57% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #8/18
  • PHOTO May Nursery, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: May Nursery, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cannonade Sod Farm in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cannonade Sod Farm averages 2.6 TCR (57% of the Sod farming BLS benchmark).

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

Cannonade Sod Farm TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=5.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Cannonade Sod Farm falls in its industry

386 Sod farming establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 18 Sod farming employers in Texas.

Cannonade Sod Farm (20 employees, TCR 2.6) 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 Cannonade Sod Farm
Cannonade Sod Farm (20 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Cannonade 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
2017 5.1 5.1 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · TX · Gonzalez

386 Sod farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 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 May Nursery, Inc. 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hunter Trees 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Monrovia 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ForemosCo, Inc./Phoenix Foliage 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms TXP 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farmers Cooperative Society #1 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Slaton Coop Gin 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE HARLINGEN GIN COMPANY 20 FTE
NAT-TCR Giant 242 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Liverpool Office 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR FedEx Supply Chain 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR First Choice Medical Staffing 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 105 Stonecrest Drive 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crown Lift Trucks Shreveport 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0787 - Cullman, Al 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0751 - Ridgecrest, Ca 20 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: 2017, 2016. 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.