Tobacco farming, field and seed production · Tennessee

K&K Tobacco Farms LLC

Lafayette, TN · ~28 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

K&K Tobacco Farms LLC runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Tobacco farming, field and seed production workplace, earning a grade C.

K&K Tobacco Farms LLC: 4.9 TCR = 108% of Tobacco farming, field and seed production BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

K&K Tobacco Farms LLC safety composite

K&K Tobacco Farms LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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).

F

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

K&K Tobacco Farms LLC: 3.5 → 6.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.29× in 2024

K&K Tobacco Farms LLC's TCR rose 2.8 from 3.5 in 2023 to 6.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111910 · Lafayette, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.9 · 108% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK P14
  • PHOTO Wester Farms LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wester Farms LLC (0.8 TCR gap)

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K&K Tobacco Farms LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows K&K Tobacco Farms LLC averages 4.9 TCR (108% 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

K&K Tobacco Farms LLC TCR series: 2023=3.5 · 2024=6.3 · BLS 4.5

Where K&K Tobacco Farms LLC falls in its industry

22 Tobacco farming, field and see establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
K&K Tobacco Farms LLC (28 employees, TCR 4.9) 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, IncK&K Tobacco Farms LLC
K&K Tobacco Farms LLC (28 employees, TCR 4.9) among 9 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 25 employees and a TCR of 1.6

K&K Tobacco Farms LLC has more employees than the Tobacco farming, field and seed producti median and a higher 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 6.3 6.3 1 0 0
2023 3.5 3.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111910 · TN · Lafayette

22 Tobacco farming, field and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 14 employers in Lafayette, TN · 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 Wester Farms LLC 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vickers Farms 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Andrew Tyson Farms 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Steve Mitchell 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE 28960 STORE 28960 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tim Payne Painting 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gilded Mirrors Inc. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE TMI - Huntingdon 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 879 274 FTE
CITY-NEAR 879 256 FTE
CITY-NEAR LAFAYETTE 200 FTE
CITY-NEAR flex technologies 108 FTE
NAT-TCR Stoneledge Furniture LLC- Oxnard 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR CA-Santa Monica S/C 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR CA-Valencia S/C 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Boston 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ideal Setech Share-the-Spare, LLC 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE STR0530 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE STR0234 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE STR0371 28 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.