Sod farming · Florida

Star Farms Corp

Belle Glade, FL · ~100 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Star Farms Corp runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Sod farming workplace, earning a grade A.

Star Farms Corp: 1.7 TCR = 39% of Sod farming BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Star Farms Corp safety composite

Star Farms Corp scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Star Farms Corp: 0.0 → 0.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.36× in 2023

Star Farms Corp's TCR rose 0.6 from 0.0 in 2019 to 0.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Belle Glade, FL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.7 · 39% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #6/35
  • PHOTO 4605_15228
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~100 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4605_15228 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Star Farms Corp in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Star Farms Corp averages 1.7 TCR (39% of the Sod farming BLS benchmark).

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

Star Farms Corp TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=3.8 · 2021=0 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=0.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Star Farms Corp falls in its industry

386 Sod farming establishments

Safer than 88% 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 #6 safest of 35 Sod farming employers in Florida.

Star Farms Corp (100 employees, TCR 1.7) 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 Star Farms Corp
Star Farms Corp (100 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Star Farms Corp has more 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
2023 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2022 4.3 0.9 5 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 3.8 2.8 4 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · FL · Belle Glade

386 Sod farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 25 employers in Belle Glade, 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 4605_15228 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bluebird Nursery Inc 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plantel Nurseries Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR TLG TURF 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Apopka Complex 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE 460 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gator Grading & Paving 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atlantic Coast Asphalt 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR McNeill Labor Management, Inc. 1,070 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida 564 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sugar Farms CO-OP 377 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pioneer Growers Cooperative 158 FTE
NAT-TCR Igt Solutions 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #1823 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #2689 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Houston Federal, Tx #00378 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wolfgang Operations LLC - NY 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Completecare@Laurelton 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Homecrest Outdoor Living 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Regency at the Park 100 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: 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.