Sod farming · Ohio

Green Velvet Sod Farms

Bellbrook, OH · ~38 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Green Velvet Sod Farms runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Sod farming workplace, earning a grade B.

Green Velvet Sod Farms: 2.5 TCR = 56% of Sod farming BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Green Velvet Sod Farms safety composite

Green Velvet Sod Farms scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Green Velvet Sod Farms: 0.0 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2021

Green Velvet Sod Farms's TCR rose 7.5 from 0.0 in 2019 to 7.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Bellbrook, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 56% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #4/18
  • PHOTO Overdevest Nurseries…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Overdevest Nurseries, LP - Roadstown (0.0 TCR gap)

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Green Velvet Sod Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Green Velvet Sod Farms averages 2.5 TCR (56% of the Sod farming BLS benchmark).

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

Green Velvet Sod Farms TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=7.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Green Velvet Sod Farms falls in its industry

386 Sod farming establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 18 Sod farming employers in Ohio.

Green Velvet Sod Farms (38 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 Green Velvet Sod Farms
Green Velvet Sod Farms (38 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Green Velvet Sod Farms 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
2021 7.5 5.0 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · OH · Bellbrook

386 Sod farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 5 employers in Bellbrook, OH · 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 Overdevest Nurseries, LP - Roadstown 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bentwood Farms Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Monrovia 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SMR Farms 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Verano OH CPG - Mothers Grow Best 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pride Transportation Co, Inc 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Union City 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Paulding Putnam Electric Cooperative 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Covenant Animal Clinic Bellbrook 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ernst Concrete Plant 41 Sugarcreek 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR SODEXO AT BELLBROOK-SUGARCREEK SCHOOLS 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR 380588-BELLBROOK PO 20 FTE
NAT-TCR Peterson Tool Company, Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ind. School District No. 743 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Sutter Medical Foundation (185-276) 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Huntsville Operations 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Anthony Ragnone Wastewater Treatment Plant 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE QMP 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tri County Farmers Association - Marianna 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE S05371 - WM of IL - North (McHenry) 38 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: 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.