Sod farming · Georgia

Middle Georgia Farm

Fort Valley, GA · ~79 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Middle Georgia Farm runs at 77% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Sod farming workplace, earning a grade B.

Middle Georgia Farm: 3.5 TCR = 77% of Sod farming BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Middle Georgia Farm safety composite

Middle Georgia Farm scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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).

C

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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

−3.5

2017→2024

Middle Georgia Farm injury rate improved

Middle Georgia Farm's TCR fell 3.5 from 6.0 in 2017 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 10.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=6.0 · 2018=4.1 · 2019=10.0 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=1.1 · 2022=1.3 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Fort Valley, GA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.5 · 77% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #6/10
  • PHOTO Scenery Hill
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Scenery Hill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Middle Georgia Farm in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Middle Georgia Farm averages 3.5 TCR (77% of the Sod farming BLS benchmark).

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

Middle Georgia Farm TCR series: 2017=6 · 2018=4.1 · 2019=10 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=1.1 · 2022=1.3 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Middle Georgia Farm falls in its industry

386 Sod farming establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 10 Sod farming employers in Georgia.

Middle Georgia Farm (79 employees, TCR 3.5) 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 Middle Georgia Farm
Middle Georgia Farm (79 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Middle Georgia Farm has more 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 2.5 2.5 2 0 0
2023 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2022 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2021 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2020 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2019 10.0 2.5 8 0 0
2018 4.1 2.7 3 0 0
2017 6.0 0.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · GA · Fort Valley

386 Sod farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 24 employers in Fort Valley, GA · 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 Scenery Hill 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alpha Foliage, Inc 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Willowbend Nurseries, LLC 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR DURLING NURSERY, INC. 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Live Production 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ashburn GP Shelling Plant 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Summit Construction & Development LLC 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Utility Group 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Bird Body Company 2,170 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southern Orchards Management 235 FTE
CITY-NEAR PEARSON FARM 150 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Valley, Georgia 138 FTE
NAT-TCR High School 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Meeker Cooperative Light & Power Association 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Insulectro-San Jose 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Durham Wastewater Treatment Plant 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Crandic Shops 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Florida Lumber, Co. 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wilson 016 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Syracuse 082 79 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, 2022, 2021, 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.