Agriculture production or harvesting crews · North Carolina

Edwards Farm Equipment, LLC

Name: Edwards Farm Equipment, LLC Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Whitakers, NC · ~32 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.5
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Edwards Farm Equipment, LLC runs at 33% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Agriculture production or harvesting crews workplace, earning a grade A.

Edwards Farm Equipment, LLC: 1.5 TCR = 33% of Agriculture production or harvesting crews BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Edwards Farm Equipment, LLC safety composite

Edwards Farm Equipment, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Edwards Farm Equipment, LLC: 0.0 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Edwards Farm Equipment, LLC's TCR rose 3.0 from 0.0 in 2023 to 3.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115115 · Whitakers, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 33% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #4/11
PHOTO Platinum FLC, Inc
BOOK 2y book
INJ 0 inj
SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Platinum FLC, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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King Grape Far

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What this shows Edwards Farm Equipment, LLC averages 1.5 TCR (33% of the Agriculture production or harvesting crews BLS benchmark).

Edwards Farm Equipment, LLC TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=3 · BLS 4.5

Where Edwards Farm Equipment, LLC falls in its industry

836 Agriculture production or harv establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 11 Agriculture production or harv employers in North Carolina.

Edwards Farm Equipment, LLC (32 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Edwards Farm Equipment, LLC has fewer employees than the Agriculture production or harvesting cre median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2024	3.0	0.0	0	1	0
2023	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115115 · NC · Whitakers

836 Agriculture production or harvesting crews employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 11 employers in Whitakers, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Platinum FLC, Inc	DELANO, CA	1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	HACIENDA HARVESTING	SANTA MARIA, CA	1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Buttonwillow Land & Cattle Company	BUTTONWILLOW, CA	1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	King Grape Farm	DELANO, CA	1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	T.C. Smith Produce Farm	SEVEN SPRINGS	32 FTE
STATE-SIZE	LATHAMS NURSERY INC. - MONROE, NC	MONROE	32 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Lake Wendell Farming Co. LLC	WENDELL	32 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Case Farms Goldsboro Hatchery	DUDLEY	32 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Rocky Mount Engine Plant	Whitakers	1,783 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Cummins Rocky Mount Engine Plant	Whitakers	1,750 FTE
CITY-NEAR	0244-Cummins Rocky Mount Engine Plant	Whitakers	142 FTE
CITY-NEAR	C&C Industrial, Inc	Whitakers	107 FTE
NAT-TCR	Gpd Global, Inc.	Grand Junction, CO	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	RC Highway	Murfreesboro, TN	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Conyers, GA - 25	Conyers, GA	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Roanoke	Roanoke, VA	1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Professional Group Management Inc.	Medley, FL	32 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Edgerton Sqaure	Rochester, NY	32 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Schupan Industrial Recycling Elkhart	Elkhart, MI	32 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Brookdale Valparaiso MC (IN)	Valparaiso, IN	32 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: 2024, 2023. 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.