Finfish production, farm raising · North Carolina

Sunburst Trout Farms

Waynesville, NC · ~21 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sunburst Trout Farms runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Finfish production, farm raising workplace, earning a grade D.

Sunburst Trout Farms: 5.7 TCR = 126% of Finfish production, farm raising BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sunburst Trout Farms safety composite

Sunburst Trout Farms scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

−16.3

2018→2024

Sunburst Trout Farms injury rate improved

Sunburst Trout Farms's TCR fell 16.3 from 16.3 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 16.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=16.3 · 2019=10.2 · 2020=7.5 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112511 · Waynesville, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 126% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P50
  • PHOTO Great Falls Aquacult…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Great Falls Aquaculture (0.5 TCR gap)

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Sunburst Trout Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sunburst Trout Farms averages 5.7 TCR (126% of the Finfish production, farm raising BLS benchmark).

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

Sunburst Trout Farms TCR series: 2018=16.3 · 2019=10.2 · 2020=7.5 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Sunburst Trout Farms falls in its industry

28 Finfish production, farm raisi establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Sunburst Trout Farms (21 employees, TCR 5.7) among 14 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 6.1 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 15 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 050100150200250300 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Sunburst Trout Farms
Sunburst Trout Farms (21 employees, TCR 5.7) among 14 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Sunburst Trout Farms has fewer employees than the Finfish production, farm raising median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 7.5 7.5 0 1 0
2019 10.2 0.0 1 0 0
2018 16.3 10.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112511 · NC · Waynesville

28 Finfish production, farm raising employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 45 employers in Waynesville, 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 Great Falls Aquaculture 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Riverence LLC 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4829-12998 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nespelem 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Timothy Yarbrough 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Liberty NC Breeders 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE NCJA1-SEL-JASON 1' 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE L&M Warehouse & Packing Inc 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1663 390 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1663 363 FTE
CITY-NEAR Evergreen Packaging - Waynesville 213 FTE
CITY-NEAR Store 023 202 FTE
NAT-TCR Jaro Transportation Services Inc-Warren 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Christopher Heights of Worcester 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Capital City Beverages 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Renova Energy corp. 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE L.S.S. 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Knoxville Terminal 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE General Cable Corporation 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE BNANS - Towneplace Suites by Marriott 21 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, 2020, 2019, 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.