Grass seed farming · North Carolina

Sandhill Turf

Eagle Springs, NC · ~41 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sandhill Turf runs at 43% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Grass seed farming workplace, earning a grade A.

Sandhill Turf: 1.9 TCR = 43% of Grass seed farming BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sandhill Turf safety composite

Sandhill Turf scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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

Sandhill Turf: 3.5 → 4.2 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 4.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

Sandhill Turf's TCR rose 0.7 from 3.5 in 2018 to 4.2 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111998 · Eagle Springs, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.9 · 43% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/9
  • PHOTO Bidart Bros. et al
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bidart Bros. et al (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sandhill Turf in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sandhill Turf averages 1.9 TCR (43% of the Grass seed farming BLS benchmark).

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

Sandhill Turf TCR series: 2018=3.5 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2022=4.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Sandhill Turf falls in its industry

128 Grass seed farming establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 9 Grass seed farming employers in North Carolina.

Sandhill Turf (41 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 64 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Sandhill Turf
Sandhill Turf (41 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 64 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Sandhill Turf has fewer employees than the Grass seed farming median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2022 4.2 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.5 3.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111998 · NC · Eagle Springs

128 Grass seed farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 5 employers in Eagle Springs, 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 Bidart Bros. et al 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR AgMart Produce NFL 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sandy Knoll Farms, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trout Lake Farm East Farm 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jeff Barnes LLC 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lewiston NC Operation 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hendersonville Operations Center 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mountain Electric Coop Newland 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Candor Feedmill 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buy Sod - Sandhill 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR John William Carter III 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Candor Growout 19 FTE
NAT-TCR Table Mountain Casino 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Grand Rapids Manufacturing Facility 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR PSSI - 0671 Sysco Atlanta LLC 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR PSSI - 0131 Skylark Meats 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gaknn - Marietta 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ridgeway on 23rd 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ridgeway on German 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Turner Morris, Inc. Silverthorne 41 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: 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.