Sod farming · Florida

Tater Farms, LLC

Hastings, FL · ~99 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tater Farms, LLC runs at 70% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Sod farming workplace, earning a grade B.

Tater Farms, LLC: 3.1 TCR = 70% of Sod farming BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tater Farms, LLC safety composite

Tater Farms, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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%).

Tater Farms, LLC held a steady TCR band

Tater Farms, LLC's TCR held near 0.2 from 1.3 in 2021 to 1.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=1.3 · 2022=4.2 · 2023=5.5 · 2024=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Hastings, FL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.1 · 70% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #111/274
  • PHOTO Christy Webber & Com…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~99 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Christy Webber & Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tater Farms, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tater Farms, LLC averages 3.1 TCR (70% of the Sod farming BLS benchmark).

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

Tater Farms, LLC TCR series: 2021=1.3 · 2022=4.2 · 2023=5.5 · 2024=1.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Tater Farms, LLC falls in its industry

2,875 Sod farming establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #111 safest of 274 Sod farming employers in Florida.

Tater Farms, LLC (99 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Tater Farms, LLC
Tater Farms, LLC (99 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Tater Farms, LLC has more employees than the Sod farming median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 1.5 0.8 2 0 0
2023 5.5 3.3 5 0 0
2022 4.2 2.1 4 0 0
2021 1.3 0.5 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · FL · Hastings

2,875 Sod farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 3 employers in Hastings, 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 Christy Webber & Company 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sacramento LDI 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Owen Tree Service Herbicide Division, Inc 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fit Turf - Denver South Branch 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brevard Service Center 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE HGR Construction Inc. 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Culpepper Construction Company, Inc. 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hawkins Construction, Inc. 99 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hastings Medical 265 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hastings FL 24 FTE
NAT-TCR Sutton Bus & Truck Co Inc 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ramsey 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Federal Tool and Engineering 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Rohn Products LLC (Plank Facility) 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE South Dakota 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Raley's 410-Folsom 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Raley's 248-Redding 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Raley's 103- Reno 99 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.