Seeding lawns · North Carolina

Sides Contracting Co., Inc

Lexington, NC · ~61 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sides Contracting Co., Inc runs at 11% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Seeding lawns workplace, earning a grade A.

Sides Contracting Co., Inc: 0.5 TCR = 11% of Seeding lawns BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sides Contracting Co., Inc safety composite

Sides Contracting Co., Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

82/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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%).

Sides Contracting Co., Inc held a steady TCR band

Sides Contracting Co., Inc's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 2.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=0.0 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Lexington, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 11% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/74
  • PHOTO Coastal Spray Company
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~61 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Coastal Spray Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sides Contracting Co., Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sides Contracting Co., Inc averages 0.5 TCR (11% of the Seeding lawns BLS benchmark).

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

Sides Contracting Co., Inc TCR series: 2018=0 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Sides Contracting Co., Inc falls in its industry

2,875 Seeding lawns establishments

Safer than 98% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 74 Seeding lawns employers in North Carolina.

Sides Contracting Co., Inc (61 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sides Contracting Co., Inc
Sides Contracting Co., Inc (61 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Sides Contracting Co., Inc has more employees than the Seeding lawns median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · NC · Lexington

2,875 Seeding lawns employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 120 employers in Lexington, 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 Coastal Spray Company 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Houston 1430 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sarasota 34110 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Forrest Landscape & Irrigation, Inc. 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE H. F. Lee Energy Complex 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Winston Salem Resource Center - PNG 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charlotte Division 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE WESTFIELD REHABILITATION AND HEALTH CENTER 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR Davidson County Schools 3,351 FTE
CITY-NEAR Davidson County Government 1,237 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atrium Windows & Door 910 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASCO Power Technologies 639 FTE
NAT-TCR Dublin 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Katz Americas South 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Panther Graphics, Inc. 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR WLS Fabricating 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Arizona 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE MPM Inc. 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Highpoint Finishing Solutions Inc 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Michael Brothers Transportation 61 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, 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.