Hydroponic crop farming · Georgia

Southern Flavor Farms

Fort Valley, GA · ~129 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern Flavor Farms runs at 172% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hydroponic crop farming workplace, earning a grade D.

Southern Flavor Farms: 7.7 TCR = 172% of Hydroponic crop farming BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Flavor Farms safety composite

Southern Flavor Farms scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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).

F

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Southern Flavor Farms: 4.2 → 9.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 9.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.97× in 2021

Southern Flavor Farms's TCR rose 5.6 from 4.2 in 2018 to 9.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111419 · Fort Valley, GA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.7 · 172% of ind

  • DART 7.5 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO Good Day Farm Missouri
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~129 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Good Day Farm Missouri (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern Flavor Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern Flavor Farms averages 7.7 TCR (172% of the Hydroponic crop farming BLS benchmark).

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

Southern Flavor Farms TCR series: 2018=4.2 · 2020=9.3 · 2021=9.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Southern Flavor Farms falls in its industry

251 Hydroponic crop farming establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Hydroponic crop farming employers in Georgia.

Southern Flavor Farms (129 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Southern Flavor Farms
Southern Flavor Farms (129 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Southern Flavor Farms has more employees than the Hydroponic crop farming median and a higher 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
2021 9.8 7.5 3 10 0
2020 9.3 4.6 5 9 0
2018 4.2 4.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111419 · GA · Fort Valley

251 Hydroponic crop farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 24 employers in Fort Valley, GA · 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 Good Day Farm Missouri 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Simsbury 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Holly Street 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR NuLeaf Sparks Cultivation LLC 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE HARRISON CONTRACTING COMPANY 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hawkinsville 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Solo Cup Company Augusta 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Republic Conduit Inc. - Cedar Springs 129 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Bird Body Company 2,170 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southern Orchards Management 235 FTE
CITY-NEAR PEARSON FARM 150 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Valley, Georgia 138 FTE
NAT-TCR Blaire House of Worcester 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Mountain View Packaging LLC 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Awg - Pearl River 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR TASCA AUTOMOTIVE GROUP Inc Truck Center 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Madico - Pinellas Park 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacific Hills Manor 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chesterfield Healthcare Group, Inc 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Manassas Police Department 129 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: 2021, 2020, 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.