Sod farming · Florida

SMR Farms

Lakewood Ranch, FL · ~21 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SMR Farms runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Sod farming workplace, earning a grade B.

SMR Farms: 2.5 TCR = 55% of Sod farming BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SMR Farms safety composite

SMR Farms scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−10.1

2017→2024

SMR Farms injury rate improved

SMR Farms's TCR fell 10.1 from 10.1 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=10.1 · 2018=6.2 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Lakewood Ranch, FL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 55% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/35
  • PHOTO Palmer Westbrook Inc.
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Palmer Westbrook Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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SMR Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SMR Farms averages 2.5 TCR (55% of the Sod farming BLS benchmark).

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

SMR Farms TCR series: 2017=10.1 · 2018=6.2 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where SMR Farms falls in its industry

386 Sod farming establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 35 Sod farming employers in Florida.

SMR Farms (21 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate SMR Farms
SMR Farms (21 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

SMR Farms has fewer employees than the Sod farming median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.4 0.0 1 0 0
2018 6.2 6.2 3 0 0
2017 10.1 6.1 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · FL · Lakewood Ranch

386 Sod farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 17 employers in Lakewood Ranch, FL · 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 Palmer Westbrook Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sustainably Green LLC 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Georgia Turf, Inc 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nourse Farms, Inc. 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Woerner Farms LLC - CLA 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Parkesdale Farms Packing & Cooling Inc. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE TELOGIA POWER LLC 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE GB1 Gulf Breeze 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakewood Ranch Golf & Country Club 228 FTE
CITY-NEAR Store 1600 154 FTE
CITY-NEAR Esplanade Golf & Country Club at Lakewood Ranch 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1808-00001201-2559 73 FTE
NAT-TCR Corner Stone Construction 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Manufacturing Plant - Corning 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Cuyuna Range Elementary School 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR DMZ Builders 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Iowa City Ready Mix, Inc. 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE BBL Construction, Inc. 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE LaGrou Drivers 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE 11929 Norwell 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.