Excavating, earthmoving or land clearing, mining (except overburden removal at open pit mine sites or quarries) · Texas

D&L Smith Farms

Ackerly, TX · ~21 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

D&L Smith Farms runs at 29% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Excavating, earthmoving or land clearing, mining (except overburden removal at open pit mine sites or quarries) workplace, earning a grade A.

D&L Smith Farms: 0.8 TCR = 29% of Excavating, earthmoving or land clearing, mining (except overburden removal at open pit mine sites or quarries) BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

D&L Smith Farms safety composite

D&L Smith Farms scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

D&L Smith Farms held a steady TCR band

D&L Smith Farms's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=4.1 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Ackerly, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 29% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #33/147
  • PHOTO South Florida Land C…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: South Florida Land Clearing, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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D&L Smith Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows D&L Smith Farms averages 0.8 TCR (29% of the Excavating, earthmoving or land clearing, mining (except overburden removal at open pit mine sites or quarries) BLS benchmark).

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

D&L Smith Farms TCR series: 2017=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=4.1 · 2023=0 · BLS 2.8

Where D&L Smith Farms falls in its industry

1,750 Excavating, earthmoving or lan establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 147 Excavating, earthmoving or lan employers in Texas.

D&L Smith Farms (21 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 050100150200250 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate D&L Smith Farms
D&L Smith Farms (21 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

D&L Smith Farms has fewer employees than the Excavating, earthmoving or land clearing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2021 4.1 4.1 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · TX · Ackerly

1,750 Excavating, earthmoving or land clearing, mining (except overburden removal at open pit mine sites or quarries) 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 South Florida Land Clearing, Inc 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trimble Construction 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR City Hill Excavating,Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maxwell's Backhoe Inc DBA MBI Excavation 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Grass Roots Farming LLC. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dawn Cattle Feeders 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Twin Lakes Dairy LP 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE SEABOARD FOODS LP TEXAS MAINT 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Silver Spur Energy 30 FTE
NAT-TCR Moltus Building Group 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Shared Services - HR 086 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Tomar Electronics Inc 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Arthrex, Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Homewood Suites Jacksonville FL 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hampton Inn Deerfield Beach FL 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE ATS Precision 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Residence Inn Little Rock AR 21 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.