Potato farming, field and seed potato production · North Carolina

Sweet Potato Packing House

Kinston, NC · ~18 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sweet Potato Packing House runs at 52% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Potato farming, field and seed potato production workplace, earning a grade B.

Sweet Potato Packing House: 2.3 TCR = 52% of Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sweet Potato Packing House safety composite

Sweet Potato Packing House scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 54%), 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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%).

Sweet Potato Packing House held a steady TCR band

Sweet Potato Packing House's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.6 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=6.6 · 2021=5.1 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111211 · Kinston, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 52% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/7
  • PHOTO Black Gold Farms - LAD
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Black Gold Farms - LAD (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sweet Potato Packing House in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sweet Potato Packing House averages 2.3 TCR (52% of the Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS benchmark).

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

Sweet Potato Packing House TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=6.6 · 2021=5.1 · 2022=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Sweet Potato Packing House falls in its industry

153 Potato farming, field and seed establishments

Safer than 82% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 7 Potato farming, field and seed employers in North Carolina.

Sweet Potato Packing House (18 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sweet Potato Packing House
Sweet Potato Packing House (18 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Sweet Potato Packing House has fewer employees than the Potato farming, field and seed potato pr median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 5.1 0.0 1 0 0
2019 6.6 6.6 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111211 · NC · Kinston

153 Potato farming, field and seed potato production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 86 employers in Kinston, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Black Gold Farms - LAD 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Black Gold Farms Charleston 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rhinelander Ag Research 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Liberty Foods, LLC 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pikeville 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Laurinburg 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod - Leggett 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE HILL TOP FARMS INC 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sanderson Farms Kinston Processing 1,564 FTE
CITY-NEAR Caswell Developmental Center 1,256 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNC Lenoir Health Care 843 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNC Health Lenoir 744 FTE
NAT-TCR Merz Construction, Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Marquez Brothers International, Inc 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 1324 - Alameda 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 469 - Hamilton Township 2.3 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: 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.