Tractors, farm and garden, merchant wholesalers · Alabama

SunSouth Auburn

Auburn, AL · ~19 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SunSouth Auburn runs at 420% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Tractors, farm and garden, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

SunSouth Auburn: 9.3 TCR = 420% of Tractors, farm and garden, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SunSouth Auburn safety composite

SunSouth Auburn scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

SunSouth Auburn: 7.4 → 16.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 16.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.58× in 2024

SunSouth Auburn's TCR rose 8.6 from 7.4 in 2019 to 16.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 16.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423820 · Auburn, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.3 · 420% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #10/12
  • PHOTO Morris Store
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Morris Store (0.0 TCR gap)

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SunSouth Auburn in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SunSouth Auburn averages 9.3 TCR (420% of the Tractors, farm and garden, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

SunSouth Auburn TCR series: 2019=7.4 · 2020=0 · 2021=10.7 · 2022=5.3 · 2023=16 · 2024=16 · BLS 2.2

Where SunSouth Auburn falls in its industry

700 Tractors, farm and garden, mer establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 12 Tractors, farm and garden, mer employers in Alabama.

SunSouth Auburn (19 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate SunSouth Auburn
SunSouth Auburn (19 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

SunSouth Auburn has fewer employees than the Tractors, farm and garden, merchant whol median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 16.0 5.3 3 0 0
2023 16.0 0.0 3 0 0
2022 5.3 0.0 1 0 0
2021 10.7 0.0 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 7.4 3.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · AL · Auburn

700 Tractors, farm and garden, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 113 employers in Auburn, AL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Morris Store 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR BTI Hoxie 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Algona 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stotz Equipment - Avondale 9.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Selma 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Selma Operations Center 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hughes Companies, Inc. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pine City Contractors, LLC 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Briggs & Stratton 602 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4021-000017263 456 FTE
CITY-NEAR 000017263 AUBURN UNIVERSITY DINING 432 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 356 344 FTE
NAT-TCR 1378 - Ocean Township 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 2174 - Conyers 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR West Central Steel, Inc. 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 0941 - Hollister 9.3 TCR

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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.