Landscape care and maintenance services · South Carolina

Sodfather Inc. Landscape Contractors

Name: Sodfather Inc. Landscape Contractors Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Spartanburg, SC · ~55 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 7.8
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Sodfather Inc. Landscape Contractors runs at 173% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Landscape care and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade D.

Sodfather Inc. Landscape Contractors: 7.8 TCR = 173% of Landscape care and maintenance services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sodfather Inc. Landscape Contractors safety composite

Sodfather Inc. Landscape Contractors scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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).

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 7.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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

−2.7

2017→2019

Sodfather Inc. Landscape Contractors injury rate improved

Sodfather Inc. Landscape Contractors's TCR fell 2.7 from 9.1 in 2017 to 6.5 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.1 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=9.1 · 2019=6.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Spartanburg, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.8 · 173% of ind

DART 2.6 DART
RANK #25/32
PHOTO Ocala
BOOK 2y book
INJ 11 inj
SIZE ~55 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ocala (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Sodfather Inc. Landscape Contractors averages 7.8 TCR (173% of the Landscape care and maintenance services BLS benchmark).

Sodfather Inc. Landscape Contractors TCR series: 2017=9.1 · 2019=6.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Sodfather Inc. Landscape Contractors falls in its industry

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 32 Landscape care and maintenance employers in South Carolina.

Sodfather Inc. Landscape Contractors (55 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Sodfather Inc. Landscape Contractors has more employees than the Landscape care and maintenance services median and a higher 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
2019	6.5	2.6	5	0	0
2017	9.1	3.0	6	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · SC · Spartanburg

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 294 employers in Spartanburg, SC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Ocala	OCALA, FL	7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Bunyon Bros. Tree Care, Inc.	SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA	7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Senske Lawn and Tree Care - Seattle Branch	MUKILTEO, WA	7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Timberline Landscaping	COLORADO SPRINGS, CO	7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	JRD Growers	WARD	55 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Startex-Jackson-Wellford-Duncan Water District	WELLFORD	55 FTE
STATE-SIZE	JMCOPEINC	ROCK HILL	55 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Axiom Foundations	FORT MILL	55 FTE
CITY-NEAR	SPARTANBURG FOOD	Spartanburg	8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Spartanburg Medical Center	Spartanburg	5,386 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Spartanburg County	Spartanburg	1,633 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Spartanburg County Government	Spartanburg	1,561 FTE
NAT-TCR	Keystone Plant 4	Goshen, IN	7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Elm Heights	Shenandoah, IA	7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Conklin DC	Conklin, NY	7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	MW2	Wauwatosa, WI	7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Port City Metal Products	Muskegon, MI	55 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Cookson Enterprise	Escondido, CA	55 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Heartland Express Wilsonville	Wilsonville, OR	55 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Pennichuck Water Works Inc - Main Office	Merrimack, NH	55 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: 2019, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.