Packaging fresh or farm-dried fruits and · North Carolina

Fords Produce Company Inc

Raleigh, NC · ~40 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fords Produce Company Inc runs at 314% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Packaging fresh or farm-dried fruits and workplace, earning a grade F.

Fords Produce Company Inc: 14.1 TCR = 314% of Packaging fresh or farm-dried fruits and BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fords Produce Company Inc safety composite

Fords Produce Company Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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).

F

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

−2.7

2016→2020

Fords Produce Company Inc injury rate improved

Fords Produce Company Inc's TCR fell 2.7 from 14.5 in 2016 to 11.8 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 20.0 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=14.5 · 2017=20.0 · 2018=15.5 · 2019=8.7 · 2020=11.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115114 · Raleigh, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.1 · 314% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Eriksson LLC
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Eriksson LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Fords Produce Company Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fords Produce Company Inc averages 14.1 TCR (314% of the Packaging fresh or farm-dried fruits and BLS benchmark).

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

Fords Produce Company Inc TCR series: 2016=14.5 · 2017=20 · 2018=15.5 · 2019=8.7 · 2020=11.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Fords Produce Company Inc falls in its industry

666 Packaging fresh or farm-dried establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

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 4 Packaging fresh or farm-dried employers in North Carolina.

Fords Produce Company Inc (40 employees, TCR 14.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Fords Produce Company Inc
Fords Produce Company Inc (40 employees, TCR 14.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Fords Produce Company Inc has fewer employees than the Packaging fresh or farm-dried fruits and median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2020 11.8 3.9 6 0 0
2019 8.7 3.5 5 0 0
2018 15.5 5.8 8 0 0
2017 20.0 16.0 10 0 0
2016 14.5 4.1 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · NC · Raleigh

666 Packaging fresh or farm-dried fruits and employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 973 employers in Raleigh, 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 Eriksson LLC 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR T&A Onions - Onion Shed 13.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Simonian Farming Company 13.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR B&B Potato- Whse 14.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gary Thomas Farms 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-State Turf of NC 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pender Nursery Inc. 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sugar Hollow Solar, Inc. 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Headway Workforce Solutions 13,936 FTE
CITY-NEAR NC State University 11,491 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNC Rex Healthcare 7,282 FTE
CITY-NEAR SECU 6,283 FTE
NAT-TCR Manufacturing 14.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ram Tool Construction Supply Company - Tampa 14.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunny Acres Nursing Home #562 14.1 TCR
NAT-TCR ISD 191 MWS Marion West Savage Elem 14.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Elmwood Assisted Living 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE J-M Northwest, Inc. dba Dick's Towing & Transport 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE DGS Aviation Services : BIL - Billings 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Smj Metal Company, Inc. 40 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.