Sod farming · California

Southland Sod Farms Operations, Inc.

Oxnard, CA · ~143 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southland Sod Farms Operations, Inc. runs at 210% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sod farming workplace, earning a grade F.

Southland Sod Farms Operations, Inc.: 9.5 TCR = 210% of Sod farming BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southland Sod Farms Operations, Inc. safety composite

Southland Sod Farms Operations, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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)
F 9.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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

−10.2

2016→2024

Southland Sod Farms Operations, Inc. injury rate improved

Southland Sod Farms Operations, Inc.'s TCR fell 10.2 from 14.5 in 2016 to 4.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 474.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=14.5 · 2017=8.4 · 2018=12.4 · 2019=7.2 · 2020=10.8 · 2021=10.1 · 2022=8.1 · 2023=474.6 · 2024=4.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Oxnard, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.5 · 210% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #102/120
  • PHOTO Washington
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 149 inj
  • SIZE ~143 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Washington (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southland Sod Farms Operations, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southland Sod Farms Operations, Inc. averages 9.5 TCR (210% of the Sod farming BLS benchmark).

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

Southland Sod Farms Operations, Inc. TCR series: 2016=14.5 · 2017=8.4 · 2018=12.4 · 2019=7.2 · 2020=10.8 · 2021=10.1 · 2022=8.1 · 2023=474.6 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Southland Sod Farms Operations, Inc. falls in its industry

386 Sod farming establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #102 safest of 120 Sod farming employers in California.

Southland Sod Farms Operations, Inc. (143 employees, TCR 9.5) 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 Southland Sod Farms Operations, Inc.
Southland Sod Farms Operations, Inc. (143 employees, TCR 9.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Southland Sod Farms Operations, Inc. has more employees than the Sod 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
2024 4.3 1.4 4 2 0
2023 474.6 474.6 13 0 0
2022 8.1 2.5 12 1 0
2021 10.1 6.5 15 2 0
2020 10.8 6.6 15 3 0
2019 7.2 2.7 12 4 0
2018 12.4 8.4 27 4 0
2017 8.4 5.6 19 2 0
2016 14.5 7.0 32 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · CA · Oxnard

386 Sod farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 303 employers in Oxnard, CA · 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 Washington 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ammon Nursery 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stone Henge 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Treesap Farms LLC - Oasis 9.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE John Kautz Farms 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE Deseret Farms of California 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Woodland WDL1 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dagos Contracting 143 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - OXR1 2,474 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Oxnard 1,753 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030383 1,437 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. John's Regional Medical Center 1,352 FTE
NAT-TCR 121 - Chicago Bev 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR TXH091 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR TXH067 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR TXD030 9.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Louisiana-Pacific Tomahawk 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tru-Flex, LLC 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maricopa County - Air Quality (850) 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quality One Woodwork LLC 143 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, 2016. 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.