Oilseed and grain combination farming, field and seed production · North Carolina

Open Grounds Farm, Inc.

Beaufort, NC · ~24 workers · 9 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

Open Grounds Farm, Inc. runs at 78% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Oilseed and grain combination farming, field and seed production workplace, earning a grade B.

Open Grounds Farm, Inc.: 3.5 TCR = 78% of Oilseed and grain combination farming, field and seed production BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Open Grounds Farm, Inc. safety composite

Open Grounds Farm, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 3.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

Fatalities
C 0

Safer than 55% 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

Open Grounds Farm, Inc.: 3.3 → 8.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.18× in 2024

Open Grounds Farm, Inc.'s TCR rose 5.0 from 3.3 in 2016 to 8.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111191 · Beaufort, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.5 · 78% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK P91
  • PHOTO ILS Farm Partnership
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ILS Farm Partnership (0.3 TCR gap)

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Open Grounds Farm, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Open Grounds Farm, Inc. averages 3.5 TCR (78% of the Oilseed and grain combination farming, field and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

Open Grounds Farm, Inc. TCR series: 2016=3.3 · 2017=3.2 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=8.2 · 2022=0 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=8.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Open Grounds Farm, Inc. falls in its industry

11 Oilseed and grain combination establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 8.3 4.2 2 0 0
2023 4.9 4.9 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 8.2 0.0 2 0 0
2020 3.6 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 3.2 0.0 1 0 0
2016 3.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111191 · NC · Beaufort

11 Oilseed and grain combination farming, field and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 17 employers in Beaufort, 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 ILS Farm Partnership 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pearl Creek Management, Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR PYCO Industries Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Total Seed Production 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Burke County EMS- Station 1 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Big Lots Store #5472 Jefferson, NC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Morehead City, NC - SEC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE RALEIGH, NC #00097 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carteret County Government 671 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4538_9896 616 FTE
CITY-NEAR Beaufort Hospitality Enterprises LLC 132 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atlantic Veneer 120 FTE
NAT-TCR Lockheed Martin Corporation LM Aircraft Logistics Center (1524) 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Wiese Kansas City 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Plastic Plate Raleigh West 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR SACO AEI Polymers, Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE BUXSC Buxmont Service Center 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wood's Tall Timber Lake, Inc. 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corrigan Moving Systems Perrysburg OH 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE USL 24 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, 2016. 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.