Tobacco farming, field and seed production · North Carolina

Kent Smith Farms

Rocky Mount, NC · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
0.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kent Smith Farms runs at 0% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Tobacco farming, field and seed production workplace, earning a grade C.

Kent Smith Farms: 0.0 TCR = 0% of Tobacco farming, field and seed production BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kent Smith Farms safety composite

Kent Smith Farms scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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%).

Kent Smith Farms held a steady TCR band

Kent Smith Farms's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 0.0 TCR.

2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111910 · Rocky Mount, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 0.0 · 0% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #0/15
  • PHOTO Holland Farms, Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Holland Farms, Inc (0.4 TCR gap)

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Kent Smith Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kent Smith Farms averages 0.0 TCR (0% of the Tobacco farming, field and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

Kent Smith Farms TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Kent Smith Farms falls in its industry

22 Tobacco farming, field and see establishments

Safer than 100% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #0 safest of 15 Tobacco farming, field and see employers in North Carolina.

Kent Smith Farms (20 employees, TCR 0.0) among 9 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 25 employees and a TCR of 1.6 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 10 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 020406080 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Andrew Tyson FarmsStrickland Farms PayrollRock Ridge Farms PartnershipYarbrough Farms LLCFarmB & S Farming, Inc.Thomas Family Farms, Inc.FARMHolland Farms, IncKent Smith Farms
Kent Smith Farms (20 employees, TCR 0.0) among 9 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 25 employees and a TCR of 1.6

Kent Smith Farms has fewer employees than the Tobacco farming, field and seed producti median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.6. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111910 · NC · Rocky Mount

22 Tobacco farming, field and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 121 employers in Rocky Mount, 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 Holland Farms, Inc 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR B & S Farming, Inc. 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR FARM 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SHARP FARM INC 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Public Utilities 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE 200 Doctors Dr 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Store 0377 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Store 1673 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hospira, a Pfizer Company 2,819 FTE
CITY-NEAR QVC Rocky Mount, Inc. 1,177 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Rocky Mount 1,161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Barnhill Contracting Company 982 FTE
NAT-TCR 2000 St James Place 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pegasus Painting & Waterproofing LLC. 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bilow Farms, LLC 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lake Shore Electric Corp 0.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lignetics of Virginia 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Moberly Hotel 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5278 - P78cos-Fpco-Cos Co 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Weelborg Chevrolet of Glencoe, LLC 20 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: 2024, 2023. 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.