Tobacco farming, field and seed production · North Carolina

Gary Thomas Farms

Sanford, NC · ~40 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gary Thomas Farms runs at 36% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Tobacco farming, field and seed production workplace, earning a grade A.

Gary Thomas Farms: 1.6 TCR = 36% of Tobacco farming, field and seed production BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gary Thomas Farms safety composite

Gary Thomas Farms scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Gary Thomas Farms: 0.0 → 3.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.2 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

Gary Thomas Farms's TCR rose 3.2 from 0.0 in 2023 to 3.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111910 · Sanford, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 36% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #8/15
  • PHOTO Yarbrough Farms LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Yarbrough Farms LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gary Thomas Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gary Thomas Farms averages 1.6 TCR (36% 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

Gary Thomas Farms TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Gary Thomas Farms falls in its industry

22 Tobacco farming, field and see establishments

Safer than 50% 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 #8 safest of 15 Tobacco farming, field and see employers in North Carolina.

Gary Thomas Farms (40 employees, TCR 1.6) among 9 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 25 employees and a TCR of 1.6 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 10 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 LLCFarmB & S Farming, Inc.Thomas Family Farms, Inc.FARMHolland Farms, IncGary Thomas Farms
Gary Thomas Farms (40 employees, TCR 1.6) among 9 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 25 employees and a TCR of 1.6

Gary Thomas Farms has more employees than the Tobacco farming, field and seed producti median and a lower 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 3.2 3.2 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111910 · NC · Sanford

22 Tobacco farming, field and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 121 employers in Sanford, 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 Yarbrough Farms LLC 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farming 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thomas Family Farms, Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR S2 Farms, LLC 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fort Bragg Grounds (203) 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Store 1033 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waltonwood Lake Boone IL 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fords Produce Company Inc 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Coty US LLC 1,264 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pentair Sanford Hawkins Ave 937 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sanford, NC 772 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pentair Water Pool and Spa 768 FTE
NAT-TCR S & A Industries New Albany Mississippi 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR BTS Chillers 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Gold Dust Potato Processors, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Roseville 10077 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Washington Penn - V-BAT 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE 07 Omaha, NE 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Neall - Alliance 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wichita Tooling Center 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: 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.