Tobacco farming, field and seed production · North Carolina

Sharp Farm Inc

Sims, NC · ~70 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sharp Farm Inc runs at 16% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Tobacco farming, field and seed production workplace, earning a grade A.

Sharp Farm Inc: 0.7 TCR = 16% of Tobacco farming, field and seed production BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sharp Farm Inc safety composite

Sharp Farm Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Sharp Farm Inc: 0.0 → 1.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

Sharp Farm Inc's TCR rose 1.5 from 0.0 in 2023 to 1.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111910 · Sims, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 16% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #4/15
  • PHOTO FARM
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FARM (0.1 TCR gap)

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Sharp Farm Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sharp Farm Inc averages 0.7 TCR (16% of the Tobacco farming, field and seed production BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Sharp Farm Inc TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=1.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Sharp Farm Inc falls in its industry

22 Tobacco farming, field and see establishments

Safer than 82% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

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 15 Tobacco farming, field and see employers in North Carolina.

Sharp Farm Inc (70 employees, TCR 0.7) among 9 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 25 employees and a TCR of 1.6 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 10 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 020406080 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Andrew Tyson FarmsStrickland Farms PayrollRock Ridge Farms PartnershipYarbrough Farms LLCFarmB & S Farming, Inc.Thomas Family Farms, Inc.FARMHolland Farms, IncSharp Farm Inc
Sharp Farm Inc (70 employees, TCR 0.7) among 9 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 25 employees and a TCR of 1.6

Sharp Farm Inc has more employees than the Tobacco farming, field and seed producti median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.6. 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 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111910 · NC · Sims

22 Tobacco farming, field and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 4 employers in Sims, 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 FARM 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leggett Farming Partnership 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR B & S Farming, Inc. 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Holland Farms, Inc 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rapid Pace Delivery, Inc. 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carriage House Senior Living 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Superior Walls Systems, LLC 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hilliard Logistics LLC 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gardens Alive Farms North Carolina 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hocutt Farms, Inc. 22 FTE
NAT-TCR Eagle Research Corporation 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Pedco Systems, Inc 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Numerical Precision Inc. 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Corporate 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gosiger Automation, LLC 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plant Site Logistics 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE A. A. Will Corporation 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Noble Construction Group, LLC 70 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. 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.