Tomato farming, grown under cover · Virginia

Red Sun Farms

Dublin, VA · ~76 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Red Sun Farms runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Tomato farming, grown under cover workplace, earning a grade C.

Red Sun Farms: 5.3 TCR = 117% of Tomato farming, grown under cover BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Red Sun Farms safety composite

Red Sun Farms scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−0.7

2016→2023

Red Sun Farms injury rate improved

Red Sun Farms's TCR fell 0.7 from 6.8 in 2016 to 6.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.8 · 2017=6.5 · 2018=6.3 · 2019=5.2 · 2020=8.8 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=6.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111419 · Dublin, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.3 · 117% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #7/11
  • PHOTO Bountiful Farms Cult…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bountiful Farms Cultivation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Red Sun Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Red Sun Farms averages 5.3 TCR (117% of the Tomato farming, grown under cover BLS benchmark).

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

Red Sun Farms TCR series: 2016=6.8 · 2017=6.5 · 2018=6.3 · 2019=5.2 · 2020=8.8 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=0 · 2023=6 · BLS 4.5

Where Red Sun Farms falls in its industry

251 Tomato farming, grown under co establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 11 Tomato farming, grown under co employers in Virginia.

Red Sun Farms (76 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Red Sun Farms
Red Sun Farms (76 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Red Sun Farms has more employees than the Tomato farming, grown under cover 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
2023 6.0 1.2 3 2 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.5 1.3 2 0 0
2020 8.8 5.0 7 0 0
2019 5.2 5.2 4 0 0
2018 6.3 0.0 4 1 0
2017 6.5 2.6 5 0 0
2016 6.8 2.3 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111419 · VA · Dublin

251 Tomato farming, grown under cover employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 28 employers in Dublin, VA · 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 Bountiful Farms Cultivation 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jushi MA, Inc 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carrick-Harvest, LLC dba Veritas Fine Cannabis 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trulieve Jefferson County 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Harrisonburg Greenhouse 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roanoke Svc Bldg 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Asturian Group 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE F & S Building Innovations, Inc. 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR Volvo Trucks NA New River Valley Plant 3,257 FTE
CITY-NEAR Phoenix Packaging Operations 416 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1652 269 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1652 267 FTE
NAT-TCR Pennwood Products 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Theisen's of Charles City 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Residence Inn Savannah GA Downtown 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Equity Transportation 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Waters of Cheatham 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pella Windows and Doors Mountain West - UT 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hillcraft of Wisconsin LLC 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reliable Fire & Security 76 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: 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.