Sod farming · Florida

JW Turf Farms

Palm Beach Gardens, FL · ~29 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

JW Turf Farms runs at 119% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Sod farming workplace, earning a grade C.

JW Turf Farms: 5.3 TCR = 119% of Sod farming BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

JW Turf Farms safety composite

JW Turf Farms scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.9

2017→2020

JW Turf Farms injury rate improved

JW Turf Farms's TCR fell 3.9 from 7.0 in 2017 to 3.1 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.4 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.0 · 2018=8.4 · 2019=2.8 · 2020=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Palm Beach Gardens, FL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.3 · 119% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #22/35
  • PHOTO Kuenzi Turf & Nursery
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kuenzi Turf & Nursery (0.0 TCR gap)

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JW Turf Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows JW Turf Farms averages 5.3 TCR (119% of the Sod farming BLS benchmark).

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

JW Turf Farms TCR series: 2017=7 · 2018=8.4 · 2019=2.8 · 2020=3.1 · BLS 4.5

Where JW Turf Farms falls in its industry

386 Sod farming establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 35 Sod farming employers in Florida.

JW Turf Farms (29 employees, TCR 5.3) 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 JW Turf Farms
JW Turf Farms (29 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

JW Turf Farms has fewer employees than the Sod farming median and a higher 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
2020 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2019 2.8 0.0 1 0 0
2018 8.4 5.6 3 0 0
2017 7.0 7.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · FL · Palm Beach Gardens

386 Sod farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 77 employers in Palm Beach Gardens, FL · 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 Kuenzi Turf & Nursery 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ekstrom & Schmidt Nursery, LLC 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greenleaf Nursery Company 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nursery 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE RB Farms, LLC 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heart of Florida Greenhouses, Inc. 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Gardens Citrus Nursery, LLC 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE C & M RUCKS DAIRY, INC. 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR 333 PALM BEACH GARDENS MEDICAL CENTER 872 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-333 757 FTE
CITY-NEAR HearUSA 492 FTE
CITY-NEAR Otis Elevator Company- NAA Headquarters Palm Beach Gardens 361 FTE
NAT-TCR Rcw K-12 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR GSU:GS200 - GS200-GSU - Selma, CA 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Access Securepak 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR UOP Russell 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE West Burnside Store 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Courtyard - FT. Worth Stockyards 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE LQ0190 Greensboro 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wilson College 29 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: 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.