Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production · Georgia
Herndon Farms
Lyons, GA · ~143 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 9.2
- Avg TCR
- 4.5
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Herndon Farms runs at 205% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production workplace, earning a grade F.
Herndon Farms: 9.2 TCR = 205% of Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)
Herndon Farms safety composite
Herndon Farms scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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).
29/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Total Case Rate (TCR)
- F 9.22 per 100 workers
Safer than 13% of industry peers
- DART rate
- F 4.93 per 100 workers
Safer than 31% 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
Herndon Farms: 10.0 → 10.5 TCR
Peak year 2018 @ 10.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.53× in 2018
Herndon Farms's TCR rose 0.5 from 10.0 in 2016 to 10.5 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).
OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard
Establishment book 111219 · Lyons, GA ABOVE-IND · MID
Grade F · TCR 9.2 · 205% of ind
- DART 4.9 DART
- RANK #10/11
- PHOTO Ocean Mist Farms-Far…
- BOOK 3y book
- INJ 41 inj
- SIZE ~143 FTE
Nearest TCR peer: Ocean Mist Farms-Farming (0.0 TCR gap)
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Herndon Farms in the TCR neighbourhood
Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers
- This site
Herndon Farms
9.2 TCR
- Ocean Mist Far
Ocean Mist Farms-Farming
9.2 TCR
- Scarborough Fa
Scarborough Farms
9.1 TCR
- ATI Ag Service
ATI Ag Services, LLC
9 TCR
- Farming
Farming
9 TCR
What this shows Herndon Farms averages 9.2 TCR (205% of the Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production BLS benchmark).
Herndon Farms TCR series: 2016=10 · 2017=7.2 · 2018=10.5 · BLS 4.5
Where Herndon Farms falls in its industry
331 Vegetable and melon farming, v establishmentsSafer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.
Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 11 Vegetable and melon farming, v employers in Georgia.
Herndon Farms has more employees than the Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable ( median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 10.5 | 4.9 | 17 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 7.2 | 5.4 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 10.0 | 7.5 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
OSHA ITA peer cross-reference
Establishment peer ledger
111219 · GA · Lyons
331 Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 12 employers in Lyons, GA · 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 | Ocean Mist Farms-Farming | 9.2 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Scarborough Farms | 9.1 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | ATI Ag Services, LLC | 9.0 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Farming | 9.0 TCR |
| STATE-SIZE | MAREK Atlanta | 143 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Beverage Based Plant | 143 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Langdale Forest Products Co. Barnesville | 143 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Jered LLC/PaR Marine | 143 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Chicken of the Sea-GA Canning | 297 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Oxley Park Health and Rehabilitation | 121 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Toombs Nursing Home | 113 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | McLain Farms, Inc. | 78 FTE |
| NAT-TCR | N and R of Lincoln County Inc | 9.2 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Binghamton (Nybin) | 9.2 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Jimmy's Steer House - Arlington | 9.2 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Ross store 482 | 9.2 TCR |
| NAT-SIZE | Timberland LLC | 143 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | N and R of Springfield West LLC | 143 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Bernhard MCC L.L.C. CNC | 143 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Bombardier Transportation - Baltimore - MARC | 143 FTE |
Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.