Oilseed and grain combination farming, field and seed production · Kentucky

Homestead Family Farms

Howardstown, KY · ~30 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Homestead Family Farms runs at 129% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Oilseed and grain combination farming, field and seed production workplace, earning a grade D.

Homestead Family Farms: 5.8 TCR = 129% of Oilseed and grain combination farming, field and seed production BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Homestead Family Farms safety composite

Homestead Family Farms scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

Fatalities
C 0

Safer than 55% 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

Homestead Family Farms: 2.6 → 9.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 9.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2018

Homestead Family Farms's TCR rose 6.5 from 2.6 in 2017 to 9.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111191 · Howardstown, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 129% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P36
  • PHOTO 1550 W Road 70
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1550 W Road 70 (0.3 TCR gap)

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Homestead Family Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Homestead Family Farms averages 5.8 TCR (129% of the Oilseed and grain combination farming, field and seed production BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Homestead Family Farms TCR series: 2017=2.6 · 2018=9.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Homestead Family Farms falls in its industry

11 Oilseed and grain combination establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Homestead Family Farms (30 employees, TCR 5.8) among 6 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.6 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 7 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 050100150200 345678 Average employees Total Case Rate Open Grounds Farm, Inc.Total Seed ProductionRiver Garden FarmsILS Farm PartnershipPYCO Industries Inc.Pearl Creek Management, Inc.Homestead Family Farms
Homestead Family Farms (30 employees, TCR 5.8) among 6 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Homestead Family Farms has fewer employees than the Oilseed and grain combination farming, f median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2018 9.1 0.0 4 0 0
2017 2.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111191 · KY · Howardstown

11 Oilseed and grain combination farming, field and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 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 1550 W Road 70 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR River Garden Farms 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Total Seed Production 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR PYCO Industries Inc. 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2625 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE HS Cardinal Hill Rehab Hosp 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE PIKEVILLE KY SALES CENTER 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE LA GRANGE_1369367 30 FTE
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Atlanta Medical Center South 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Cinfinity Ksc (Flksc0) 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Penske : 5094-00 Wilcox Farms/Roy, WA 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Edgerton T & M 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE dd's DISCOUNTS Store 5295 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Municipal Center 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE KWF Wesley Chapel, FL 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nexeo Solutions - Cincinnati 30 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.