Sweet potato farming, field and seed potato production · North Carolina

H & D Farms, Inc.

Autryville, NC · ~28 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

H & D Farms, Inc. runs at 27% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Sweet potato farming, field and seed potato production workplace, earning a grade A.

H & D Farms, Inc.: 1.2 TCR = 27% of Sweet potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

H & D Farms, Inc. safety composite

H & D Farms, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 54%), 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).

B

81/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

−1.0

2017→2021

H & D Farms, Inc. injury rate improved

H & D Farms, Inc.'s TCR fell 1.0 from 1.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=5.0 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111211 · Autryville, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 27% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/7
  • PHOTO Pero Family Farms, LLC
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pero Family Farms, LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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H & D Farms, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows H & D Farms, Inc. averages 1.2 TCR (27% of the Sweet potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS benchmark).

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

H & D Farms, Inc. TCR series: 2017=1 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=5 · 2021=0 · BLS 4.5

Where H & D Farms, Inc. falls in its industry

153 Sweet potato farming, field an establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 7 Sweet potato farming, field an employers in North Carolina.

H & D Farms, Inc. (28 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate H & D Farms, Inc.
H & D Farms, Inc. (28 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

H & D Farms, Inc. has fewer employees than the Sweet potato farming, field and seed pot median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 5.0 5.0 0 2 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 1.0 1.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111211 · NC · Autryville

153 Sweet potato farming, field and seed potato production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 4 employers in Autryville, 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 Pero Family Farms, LLC 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heritage Land Company 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR JR Simplot-Pasco Farm 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Camarillo 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE SMITH FARMS 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michael Morris Farms 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elkin Hatchery 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Craven County Wood Energy L.P. 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Terrell and Johmmy Williams 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jackson Farming Company 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR Terrell and Johnny Williams 50 FTE
NAT-TCR 49311b - Ferndale Bin 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Atara Biotherapeutics, Inc 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage Manor - Mt. Sterling #112 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Weigand Construction Inc. 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Monarch Oil Company 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE 42361b - Marmora 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Iowa Cooperative- Portland 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE TCSO CS Pville Court 28 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, 2018, 2017. 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.