Sod farming · North Carolina

Laurinburg

Red Springs, NC · ~18 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Laurinburg runs at 25% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Sod farming workplace, earning a grade A.

Laurinburg: 1.1 TCR = 25% of Sod farming BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Laurinburg safety composite

Laurinburg scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

Laurinburg held a steady TCR band

Laurinburg's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=6.7 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Red Springs, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 25% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/17
  • PHOTO KW NJ, Inc.
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: KW NJ, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Laurinburg in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Laurinburg averages 1.1 TCR (25% of the Sod farming BLS benchmark).

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

Laurinburg TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=6.7 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Laurinburg falls in its industry

386 Sod farming establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 17 Sod farming employers in North Carolina.

Laurinburg (18 employees, TCR 1.1) 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 Laurinburg
Laurinburg (18 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Laurinburg has fewer employees than the Sod farming median and a lower 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 6.7 6.7 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · NC · Red Springs

386 Sod farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 7 employers in Red Springs, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR KW NJ, Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Happy Holiday Christmas Trees 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR LANE CITY SOD FARM 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Plant Growers 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pikeville 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sweet Potato Packing House 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod - Leggett 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE HILL TOP FARMS INC 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR 00900 - STORE # 900 RED SPRINGS 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR 900 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR Red Springs Retirement Community, LLC 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hope Springs 30 FTE
NAT-TCR Huhtamaki Marion 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR UC Riverside 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ppp LLC 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Stevens County 1.1 TCR

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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.