Tobacco farming, field and seed production · North Carolina

Farm

Kinston, NC · ~20 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Farm runs at 217% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Tobacco farming, field and seed production workplace, earning a grade F.

Farm: 9.8 TCR = 217% of Tobacco farming, field and seed production BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Farm safety composite

Farm scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.7

2016→2024

Farm injury rate improved

Farm's TCR fell 7.7 from 7.7 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 49.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.7 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=12.1 · 2019=12.7 · 2020=5.5 · 2021=49.9 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111910 · Kinston, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.8 · 217% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #15/15
  • PHOTO Rock Ridge Farms Par…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rock Ridge Farms Partnership (2.6 TCR gap)

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Farm in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Farm averages 9.8 TCR (217% of the Tobacco farming, field and seed production BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Farm TCR series: 2016=7.7 · 2017=0 · 2018=12.1 · 2019=12.7 · 2020=5.5 · 2021=49.9 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Farm falls in its industry

22 Tobacco farming, field and see establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 15 Tobacco farming, field and see employers in North Carolina.

Farm (20 employees, TCR 9.8) among 8 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 25 employees and a TCR of 1.6 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 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 020406080 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Andrew Tyson FarmsStrickland Farms PayrollRock Ridge Farms PartnershipYarbrough Farms LLCB & S Farming, Inc.Thomas Family Farms, Inc.FARMHolland Farms, IncFarm
Farm (20 employees, TCR 9.8) among 8 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 25 employees and a TCR of 1.6

Farm has fewer employees than the Tobacco farming, field and seed producti median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.6. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 49.9 33.3 3 0 0
2020 5.5 5.5 1 0 0
2019 12.7 10.6 3 3 0
2018 12.1 12.1 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 7.7 3.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111910 · NC · Kinston

22 Tobacco farming, field and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 86 employers in Kinston, NC · 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 Rock Ridge Farms Partnership 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wester Farms LLC 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR K&K Tobacco Farms LLC 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vickers Farms 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Public Utilities 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE 200 Doctors Dr 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Store 0377 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Store 1673 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sanderson Farms Kinston Processing 1,564 FTE
CITY-NEAR Caswell Developmental Center 1,256 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNC Lenoir Health Care 843 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNC Health Lenoir 744 FTE
NAT-TCR Recology Western Oregon 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Cedar Ridge Health Campus 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR XEJ 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0679 Columbus 9.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fahrman Center 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Asbury Village 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Twinsburg Packaged Gas Plant 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE 06-Murfreesboro 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.