Berry (except strawberry) farming · North Carolina

Sleepy Creek Farms

Harrells, NC · ~44 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sleepy Creek Farms runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Berry (except strawberry) farming workplace, earning a grade D.

Sleepy Creek Farms: 7.2 TCR = 159% of Berry (except strawberry) farming BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sleepy Creek Farms safety composite

Sleepy Creek Farms scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.8

2016→2018

Sleepy Creek Farms injury rate improved

Sleepy Creek Farms's TCR fell 4.8 from 6.3 in 2016 to 1.5 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 13.7 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.3 · 2017=13.7 · 2018=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111334 · Harrells, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.2 · 159% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P27
  • PHOTO Premiere Raspberries…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Premiere Raspberries, LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Sleepy Creek Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sleepy Creek Farms averages 7.2 TCR (159% of the Berry (except strawberry) farming BLS benchmark).

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

Sleepy Creek Farms TCR series: 2016=6.3 · 2017=13.7 · 2018=1.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Sleepy Creek Farms falls in its industry

41 Berry (except strawberry) farm establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Sleepy Creek Farms (44 employees, TCR 7.2) among 25 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 5.6 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 26 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sleepy Creek Farms
Sleepy Creek Farms (44 employees, TCR 7.2) among 25 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Sleepy Creek Farms has fewer employees than the Berry (except strawberry) farming median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2018 1.5 0.0 1 0 0
2017 13.7 0.0 4 1 0
2016 6.3 3.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111334 · NC · Harrells

41 Berry (except strawberry) farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 3 employers in Harrells, 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 Premiere Raspberries, LLC 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Creekside Farms, Inc. 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ag land inc 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR M & G Farms Inc 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE ALBEMARLE WMSTN 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Morganton 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aqua Services, Inc. - Cary 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rocky River Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harrells Facility 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR 28341 STORE 28341 24 FTE
NAT-TCR B-X Avon LLC 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Store #109 (Riverdale, UT) 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Miller Holdings, Vienna 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Cstk Stl 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Columbia Cottage-Collegeville,PA 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Office 83 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rws Tx North Central Denton Child Care 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ohlheiser 44 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.