Sod farming · South Carolina

Orangeburg

Orangeburg, SC · ~59 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Orangeburg runs at 61% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Sod farming workplace, earning a grade B.

Orangeburg: 2.8 TCR = 61% of Sod farming BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Orangeburg safety composite

Orangeburg scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Orangeburg: 4.6 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2.18× in 2024

Orangeburg's TCR rose 1.4 from 4.6 in 2017 to 6.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Orangeburg, SC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.8 · 61% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK P76
  • PHOTO Frantz Nursery
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Frantz Nursery (0.0 TCR gap)

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Orangeburg in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Orangeburg averages 2.8 TCR (61% of the Sod farming BLS benchmark).

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

Orangeburg TCR series: 2017=4.6 · 2018=4.2 · 2019=5.6 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=6 · BLS 4.5

Where Orangeburg falls in its industry

386 Sod farming establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Orangeburg (59 employees, TCR 2.8) 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 Orangeburg
Orangeburg (59 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Orangeburg 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 6.0 6.0 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 1.6 0.0 1 0 0
2019 5.6 4.2 4 0 0
2018 4.2 1.4 3 0 0
2017 4.6 1.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · SC · Orangeburg

386 Sod farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 79 employers in Orangeburg, SC · 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 Frantz Nursery 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fernlea Nurseries - STU 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atlas Manufacturing, Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Winters 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Charleston Office 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mundy Maintenance, Services and Operations LLC Job #32378 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA Wool, Inc. 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anderson,SC Plant - 371 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Regional Medical Center 1,530 FTE
CITY-NEAR Husqvarna Consumer Outdoor Products 1,287 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Regional Medical Center 1,209 FTE
CITY-NEAR MUSC Health Orangeburg 1,155 FTE
NAT-TCR Fortune Metal Inc of Rhode Island 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Goodwin School 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Unity Jr. High School 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Plymouth 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cargill Dry Corn Ingredients Indianapolis 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sunlit Gardens 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE 50033 - Capstone Kroger Indianapolis 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Redding Tree Growers Corporation 59 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.