Farm supplies merchant wholesalers · North Carolina

Southern Ag Hendersonville

Hendersonville, NC · ~26 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern Ag Hendersonville runs at 194% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Farm supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Southern Ag Hendersonville: 4.3 TCR = 194% of Farm supplies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Ag Hendersonville safety composite

Southern Ag Hendersonville scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

−3.5

2019→2024

Southern Ag Hendersonville injury rate improved

Southern Ag Hendersonville's TCR fell 3.5 from 7.4 in 2019 to 3.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 10.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=7.4 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=10.7 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=3.7 · 2024=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Hendersonville, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 194% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #18/22
  • PHOTO SiteOne Landscape Su…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SiteOne Landscape Supply #367 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern Ag Hendersonville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern Ag Hendersonville averages 4.3 TCR (194% of the Farm supplies merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Southern Ag Hendersonville TCR series: 2019=7.4 · 2020=0 · 2021=10.7 · 2022=0 · 2023=3.7 · 2024=3.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Southern Ag Hendersonville falls in its industry

1,202 Farm supplies merchant wholesa establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 22 Farm supplies merchant wholesa employers in North Carolina.

Southern Ag Hendersonville (26 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Southern Ag Hendersonville
Southern Ag Hendersonville (26 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Southern Ag Hendersonville has fewer employees than the Farm supplies merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 3.8 3.8 1 0 0
2023 3.7 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 10.7 10.7 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 7.4 7.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · NC · Hendersonville

1,202 Farm supplies merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 90 employers in Hendersonville, 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 SiteOne Landscape Supply #367 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eldon C. Stutsman - Hills 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 73087 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mulberry Plant FL 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE R. A. Wood Farms, Inc. 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yarbrough Farms LLC 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE SOUTH LNM- EST 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Case Farms Goldsboro Hatchery 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Park Ridge Health 1,172 FTE
CITY-NEAR AdventHealth Hendersonville 788 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1242 402 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1242 400 FTE
NAT-TCR Runnings of Marshall 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Lions Volunteer Blind Industries - 1 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR SCI Infrastructure, LLC 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Kinetic Company Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Compass Retail Display Group 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE KODA Energy 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dal-Tile 178 Orlando 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Addiction Stabilization Center 26 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.