Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production · North Carolina

T.C. Smith Produce Farm

Seven Springs, NC · ~32 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

T.C. Smith Produce Farm runs at 11% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production workplace, earning a grade A.

T.C. Smith Produce Farm: 0.5 TCR = 11% of Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

T.C. Smith Produce Farm safety composite

T.C. Smith Produce Farm scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 99% 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).

B

83/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 99% 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

−1.9

2021→2024

T.C. Smith Produce Farm injury rate improved

T.C. Smith Produce Farm's TCR fell 1.9 from 1.9 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 1.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=1.9 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111219 · Seven Springs, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 11% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/4
  • PHOTO Reeves Farms LLC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Reeves Farms LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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T.C. Smith Produce Farm in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows T.C. Smith Produce Farm averages 0.5 TCR (11% of the Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

T.C. Smith Produce Farm TCR series: 2021=1.9 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where T.C. Smith Produce Farm falls in its industry

331 Vegetable and melon farming, v establishments

Safer than 99% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 4 Vegetable and melon farming, v employers in North Carolina.

T.C. Smith Produce Farm (32 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate T.C. Smith Produce Farm
T.C. Smith Produce Farm (32 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

T.C. Smith Produce Farm has fewer employees than the Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable ( median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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
2021 1.9 1.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · NC · Seven Springs

331 Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 3 employers in Seven Springs, 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 Reeves Farms LLC 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rick Minkus Farms 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR DiMare Homestead Inc Tomato Shed 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR GM Ag Services, Inc. 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE LATHAMS NURSERY INC. - MONROE, NC 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lake Wendell Farming Co. LLC 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Case Farms Goldsboro Hatchery 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edwards Farm Equipment, LLC 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR CUC, LLC 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tidewater Energy - Seven Springs 22 FTE
NAT-TCR Allen Industries, LLC 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR American-Iowa Manufacturing, Inc. 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR BorgWarner Propulsion Technical Center 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR NG Field Construction 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mid Atlantic Construction Group 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Garbage to Garden 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern New Jersey Steel Company Inc. 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Styrotech, Inc. 32 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.