Sweet potato farming, field and seed potato production · North Carolina

Scott Farms Inc

Lucama, NC · ~165 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Scott Farms Inc runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Sweet potato farming, field and seed potato production workplace, earning a grade B.

Scott Farms Inc: 3.2 TCR = 72% of Sweet potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Scott Farms Inc safety composite

Scott Farms Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 54%), 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

−0.4

2020→2024

Scott Farms Inc injury rate improved

Scott Farms Inc's TCR fell 0.4 from 2.0 in 2020 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=2.0 · 2021=2.9 · 2022=8.1 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111211 · Lucama, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 3.2 · 72% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #4/7
  • PHOTO Castle Rock Farming …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~165 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Castle Rock Farming LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Scott Farms Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Scott Farms Inc averages 3.2 TCR (72% of the Sweet potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS benchmark).

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

Scott Farms Inc TCR series: 2020=2 · 2021=2.9 · 2022=8.1 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Scott Farms Inc falls in its industry

153 Sweet potato farming, field an establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 7 Sweet potato farming, field an employers in North Carolina.

Scott Farms Inc (165 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Scott Farms Inc
Scott Farms Inc (165 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Scott Farms Inc has more employees than the Sweet potato farming, field and seed pot median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 1.6 1.1 3 0 0
2023 1.6 1.6 3 0 0
2022 8.1 4.5 16 0 0
2021 2.9 2.9 4 1 0
2020 2.0 2.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111211 · NC · Lucama

153 Sweet potato farming, field and seed potato production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 4 employers in Lucama, 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 Castle Rock Farming LLC 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CSS Farms, LLC Pasco, WA Pack 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Davis Ranch L.L.C. 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR JR Simplot Company, LL Grandview Farms 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE FHG, Inc. 165 FTE
STATE-SIZE DFA FLUID - WINSTON-SALEM NC-2221 PATTERSON 165 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monday Night Garden Co. 165 FTE
STATE-SIZE Enfield 165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jeff Barnes LLC 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sullivan Farms Inc. 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Scott Brothers Inc 33 FTE
NAT-TCR Ndx Affinity Dental Lab 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ndx Nsequence Ctr for Adv Dentistry 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Reschcor, Inc 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR KJ's Market #669 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Batesville Feed Mill 165 FTE
NAT-SIZE RevSpring, Inc. 165 FTE
NAT-SIZE Viewline Snowmass Resort 165 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 0099 165 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. 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.