Grass seed farming · Oregon

Scharf Farms Inc

Amity, OR · ~21 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Scharf Farms Inc runs at 104% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Grass seed farming workplace, earning a grade C.

Scharf Farms Inc: 4.7 TCR = 104% of Grass seed farming BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Scharf Farms Inc safety composite

Scharf Farms Inc scores strongest on dart rate (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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.5

2019→2020

Scharf Farms Inc injury rate improved

Scharf Farms Inc's TCR fell 0.5 from 4.9 in 2019 to 4.4 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.9 · 2020=4.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111998 · Amity, OR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.7 · 104% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #13/19
  • PHOTO AgMart Produce CFL
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AgMart Produce CFL (0.1 TCR gap)

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Scharf Farms Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Scharf Farms Inc averages 4.7 TCR (104% of the Grass seed farming BLS benchmark).

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

Scharf Farms Inc TCR series: 2019=4.9 · 2020=4.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Scharf Farms Inc falls in its industry

128 Grass seed farming establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 19 Grass seed farming employers in Oregon.

Scharf Farms Inc (21 employees, TCR 4.7) 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 Scharf Farms Inc
Scharf Farms Inc (21 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 64 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Scharf Farms Inc 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
2020 4.4 0.0 1 0 0
2019 4.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111998 · OR · Amity

128 Grass seed farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 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 AgMart Produce CFL 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Curio Wellness 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Resinate, Inc. - Worcester 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lake Park 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Giant Step Orchard 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lowell 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Capitol Farms, Inc. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Riverbend Farm 21 FTE
NAT-TCR Office of Aging and Disabled Services 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Saint Paul Police Impound Lot 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR LeachGarner 49 Pearl 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR E&H Conveyors Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE BEC - Awendaw Facility 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Key People Company 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Station 66 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vectren Corporation - Fairborn 21 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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.