Tobacco farming, field and seed production · North Carolina

Thomas Family Farms, Inc.

Timberlake, NC · ~20 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Thomas Family Farms, Inc. runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Tobacco farming, field and seed production workplace, earning a grade A.

Thomas Family Farms, Inc.: 1.7 TCR = 39% of Tobacco farming, field and seed production BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Thomas Family Farms, Inc. safety composite

Thomas Family Farms, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 41%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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%).

Thomas Family Farms, Inc. held a steady TCR band

Thomas Family Farms, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=5.3 · 2018=5.6 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=4.7 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111910 · Timberlake, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.7 · 39% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/15
  • PHOTO Yarbrough Farms LLC
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Yarbrough Farms LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Thomas Family Farms, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Thomas Family Farms, Inc. averages 1.7 TCR (39% of the Tobacco farming, field and seed production BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Thomas Family Farms, Inc. TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=5.3 · 2018=5.6 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=4.7 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Thomas Family Farms, Inc. falls in its industry

22 Tobacco farming, field and see establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 15 Tobacco farming, field and see employers in North Carolina.

Thomas Family Farms, Inc. (20 employees, TCR 1.7) among 8 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 25 employees and a TCR of 1.6 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 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 020406080 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Andrew Tyson FarmsStrickland Farms PayrollRock Ridge Farms PartnershipYarbrough Farms LLCFarmB & S Farming, Inc.FARMHolland Farms, IncThomas Family Farms, Inc.
Thomas Family Farms, Inc. (20 employees, TCR 1.7) among 8 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 25 employees and a TCR of 1.6

Thomas Family Farms, Inc. has fewer employees than the Tobacco farming, field and seed producti median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.6. 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 4.7 4.7 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 5.6 5.6 1 0 0
2017 5.3 5.3 0 1 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111910 · NC · Timberlake

22 Tobacco farming, field and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 4 employers in Timberlake, 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 Yarbrough Farms LLC 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gary Thomas Farms 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farming 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bryant Brothers 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Public Utilities 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE 200 Doctors Dr 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Store 0377 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Store 1673 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENTS 759 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN Driveline North America 729 FTE
CITY-NEAR US Flue-Cured Tobacco Growers Inc. 160 FTE
NAT-TCR CCI Group 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR General Caulking Miami 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Alphapointe - Kansas City 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR T-Lon Products, Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE International Paper Kennett Square Warehouse 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marion Region 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Portland West 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Caruthersville 20 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.