Sod farming · South Carolina

Tlg Turf

Bamberg, SC · ~34 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tlg Turf runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Sod farming workplace, earning a grade A.

Tlg Turf: 1.8 TCR = 39% of Sod farming BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tlg Turf safety composite

Tlg Turf scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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)
B 1.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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

Tlg Turf: 0.0 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

Tlg Turf's TCR rose 3.5 from 0.0 in 2023 to 3.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Bamberg, SC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.8 · 39% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK P88
  • PHOTO Plantel Nurseries Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Plantel Nurseries Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tlg Turf in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tlg Turf averages 1.8 TCR (39% of the Sod farming BLS benchmark).

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

Tlg Turf TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=3.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Tlg Turf falls in its industry

386 Sod farming establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Tlg Turf (34 employees, TCR 1.8) 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 Tlg Turf
Tlg Turf (34 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Tlg Turf has fewer employees than the Sod farming median and a lower 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 3.5 3.5 0 1 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · SC · Bamberg

386 Sod farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 11 employers in Bamberg, SC · 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 Plantel Nurseries Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Treesap Farms LLC - Homestead 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nakase Brothers Wholesale Nursery AZ 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atlantic Nurseries, Inc. 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE ArborGen Inc. Headquarters 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lancaster Operations Center 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marlboro Electric Cooperative Headquarters Office 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Joint Municipal Water and Sewer Commission 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bamberg County 198 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pruitthealth 143 FTE
CITY-NEAR Specialty Washer Co. of South Carolina, Inc. 130 FTE
CITY-NEAR Specialty Washer Co. of South Carolina, Inc. DBA Phoenix Specialty Mfg. Co. 115 FTE
NAT-TCR D24 Pittsburgh 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Marc Glassman Inc 53CF 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Nashville Plant 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Century Fence Company 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE ARC Mechanical Contractors, Inc 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bulldog Rack Company, Weirton 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE 790 Liberty Rd Flowood Ms 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE 057 Fort Worth TX 34 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. 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.