Christmas tree growing · North Carolina

Osage Tree Farm

Scaly Mountain, NC · ~10 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Osage Tree Farm runs at 111% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Christmas tree growing workplace, earning a grade C.

Osage Tree Farm: 5.0 TCR = 111% of Christmas tree growing BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Osage Tree Farm safety composite

Osage Tree Farm scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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)
D 5 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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%).

TCR Δ

−35.0

2017→2024

Osage Tree Farm injury rate improved

Osage Tree Farm's TCR fell 35.0 from 35.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 35.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=35.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Scaly Mountain, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.0 · 111% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/17
  • PHOTO Main Farm
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~10 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Main Farm (0.0 TCR gap)

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Osage Tree Farm in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Osage Tree Farm averages 5.0 TCR (111% of the Christmas tree growing BLS benchmark).

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

Osage Tree Farm TCR series: 2017=35 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Osage Tree Farm falls in its industry

386 Christmas tree growing establishments

Safer than 48% 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 #9 safest of 17 Christmas tree growing employers in North Carolina.

Osage Tree Farm (10 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 Osage Tree Farm
Osage Tree Farm (10 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Osage Tree Farm has fewer employees than the Christmas tree growing median and a higher 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 35.0 35.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · NC · Scaly Mountain

386 Christmas tree growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Main Farm 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Magnolia Gardens Nursery 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Terra Bella Nursery 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4829-13797 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Halifax EMC Macon 10 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mountain Home 10 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mazzella Lifting Technologies (Charlotte, NC) 10 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wadesboro 2 10 FTE
NAT-TCR AECI Electric Utility Sales and Services 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Renfro - Ft. Payne DC 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Aspire, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Price Rite Store 334 Worcester 5.0 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.