Sod farming · California

Grass Farm, William Y. Gil Inc.

Morgan Hill, CA · ~24 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Grass Farm, William Y. Gil Inc. runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Sod farming workplace, earning a grade C.

Grass Farm, William Y. Gil Inc.: 4.0 TCR = 90% of Sod farming BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Grass Farm, William Y. Gil Inc. safety composite

Grass Farm, William Y. Gil Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−4.8

2019→2023

Grass Farm, William Y. Gil Inc. injury rate improved

Grass Farm, William Y. Gil Inc.'s TCR fell 4.8 from 4.8 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 10.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.8 · 2020=10.5 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Morgan Hill, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 90% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #37/120
  • PHOTO SunnySlope Tree Farm…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SunnySlope Tree Farm, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Grass Farm, William Y. Gil Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Grass Farm, William Y. Gil Inc. averages 4.0 TCR (90% of the Sod farming BLS benchmark).

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

Grass Farm, William Y. Gil Inc. TCR series: 2019=4.8 · 2020=10.5 · 2021=0 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Grass Farm, William Y. Gil Inc. falls in its industry

386 Sod farming establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #37 safest of 120 Sod farming employers in California.

Grass Farm, William Y. Gil Inc. (24 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Grass Farm, William Y. Gil Inc.
Grass Farm, William Y. Gil Inc. (24 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Grass Farm, William Y. Gil Inc. has fewer employees than the Sod farming median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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
2022 4.9 4.9 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 10.5 10.5 0 2 0
2019 4.8 4.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · CA · Morgan Hill

386 Sod farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 87 employers in Morgan Hill, CA · 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 SunnySlope Tree Farm, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Western Star Nurseries - Galt Location 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village Nurseries Miramar Yard 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SOARING EAGLE NURSERY 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Agro-Jal Farming Enterprises 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE MTD Farms 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marc Pura Ranch, LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Costa Farms 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shoe Palace Corporation 2,227 FTE
CITY-NEAR Specialized Bicycle Components 600 FTE
CITY-NEAR Morgan Hill Office 472 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mushroom Grower 400 FTE
NAT-TCR Exhale Atlantic City 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Aviagen Turkeys Inc (ATI) 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern Operations Center 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR BWAY Sturtevant 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Craftsmen Utility Trailer-Davenport 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE JAT Trucking 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Buy Sod USA - Soperton Sod Farm 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Healthworks Clinic, LLC 24 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.