Attachments, powered lawn and garden equipment, manufacturing · North Carolina

John Deere Turf Care

Fuquay-Varina, NC · ~599 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

John Deere Turf Care runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Attachments, powered lawn and garden equipment, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

John Deere Turf Care: 2.4 TCR = 72% of Attachments, powered lawn and garden equipment, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

John Deere Turf Care safety composite

John Deere Turf Care scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

John Deere Turf Care: 0.9 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 4.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.49× in 2021

John Deere Turf Care's TCR rose 3.2 from 0.9 in 2018 to 4.1 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333112 · Fuquay-Varina, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 72% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Briggs & Stratton
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 65 inj
  • SIZE ~599 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Briggs & Stratton (0.0 TCR gap)

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John Deere Turf Care in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows John Deere Turf Care averages 2.4 TCR (72% of the Attachments, powered lawn and garden equipment, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

John Deere Turf Care TCR series: 2018=0.9 · 2019=1.5 · 2020=3 · 2021=4.1 · BLS 3.3

Where John Deere Turf Care falls in its industry

91 Attachments, powered lawn and establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Attachments, powered lawn and employers in North Carolina.

John Deere Turf Care (599 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate John Deere Turf Care
John Deere Turf Care (599 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 3.6

John Deere Turf Care has more employees than the Attachments, powered lawn and garden equ median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2021 4.1 3.5 29 0 0
2020 3.0 2.0 18 1 0
2019 1.5 0.9 11 1 0
2018 0.9 0.4 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333112 · NC · Fuquay-Varina

91 Attachments, powered lawn and garden equipment, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 21 employers in Fuquay-Varina, 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 Briggs & Stratton 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR STIHL Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SM Gallivan LLC 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corona Clipper, Inc 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE DAL-ODFL 599 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charlotte Pipe and Foundry Company 598 FTE
STATE-SIZE ATL-ODFL 600 FTE
STATE-SIZE NCBAN - MEBANE 600 FTE
CITY-NEAR Turf Care 559 FTE
CITY-NEAR InServ 202 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6921-00498 180 FTE
CITY-NEAR Windsor Point Retirement Community 163 FTE
NAT-TCR Orillia 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR OmniSource LLC - Holt 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR CN - Flourtown 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR UPM Pharmaceuticals 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE General Office 599 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZALB 599 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wegmans Penfield 063 599 FTE
NAT-SIZE DDS West Region - STS 599 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. 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.