Sod farming · Indiana

The Red Hen Turf Farm, Inc

New Carlisle, IN · ~17 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Red Hen Turf Farm, Inc runs at 188% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Sod farming workplace, earning a grade D.

The Red Hen Turf Farm, Inc: 8.5 TCR = 188% of Sod farming BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Red Hen Turf Farm, Inc safety composite

The Red Hen Turf Farm, Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

The Red Hen Turf Farm, Inc: 5.4 → 10.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

The Red Hen Turf Farm, Inc's TCR rose 4.9 from 5.4 in 2022 to 10.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · New Carlisle, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.5 · 188% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P18
  • PHOTO Berry & Berry Acquis…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Berry & Berry Acquisition, LLC. (0.1 TCR gap)

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The Red Hen Turf Farm, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Red Hen Turf Farm, Inc averages 8.5 TCR (188% of the Sod farming BLS benchmark).

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

The Red Hen Turf Farm, Inc TCR series: 2022=5.4 · 2023=9.7 · 2024=10.3 · BLS 4.5

Where The Red Hen Turf Farm, Inc falls in its industry

386 Sod farming establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
The Red Hen Turf Farm, Inc (17 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate The Red Hen Turf Farm, Inc
The Red Hen Turf Farm, Inc (17 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

The Red Hen Turf Farm, Inc has fewer employees than the Sod farming median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 10.3 0.0 2 0 0
2023 9.7 0.0 2 0 0
2022 5.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · IN · New Carlisle

386 Sod farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 23 employers in New Carlisle, IN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Berry & Berry Acquisition, LLC. 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Miles Nursery, Inc. 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR AMARILLO SOD FARM 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Pinery LLC 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE CenterPoint Energy - Boonville 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wagler & Associates Inc 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ferguson Construction Company - Indiana 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bercot-Gibson Construction Co, Inc. 17 FTE
CITY-NEAR I/N Tek & Kote 517 FTE
CITY-NEAR I/N Tek & Kote (EIN: I/N Tek 36-5225438; I/N Kote 36-3665288) 494 FTE
CITY-NEAR 102962 - St Joseph Energy Center 234 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Carlisle Facility 153 FTE
NAT-TCR Paris 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lexington Clinic South Broadway 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Allina Health Farmington Clinic 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR WNY Independent Living, Inc. 8.5 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. 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.