Sod farming · California

Valley Sod Farms, Inc.

Name: Valley Sod Farms, Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

North Hills, CA · ~22 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.2
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Valley Sod Farms, Inc. runs at 27% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Sod farming workplace, earning a grade A.

Valley Sod Farms, Inc.: 1.2 TCR = 27% of Sod farming BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valley Sod Farms, Inc. safety composite

Valley Sod Farms, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 1.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% 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

Valley Sod Farms, Inc.: 0.0 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Valley Sod Farms, Inc.'s TCR rose 3.7 from 0.0 in 2017 to 3.7 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · North Hills, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 27% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #6/120
PHOTO Fallbrook
BOOK 3y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fallbrook (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pauma Valley

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East Coast Nur

1.2

What this shows Valley Sod Farms, Inc. averages 1.2 TCR (27% of the Sod farming BLS benchmark).

Valley Sod Farms, Inc. TCR series: 2017=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=3.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Valley Sod Farms, Inc. falls in its industry

386 Sod farming establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 120 Sod farming employers in California.

Valley Sod Farms, Inc. (22 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Valley Sod Farms, Inc. 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	Injuries
2023	3.7	1
2022	0.0	0
2017	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · CA · North Hills

386 Sod farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 21 employers in North Hills, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Fallbrook	FALLBROOK, CA	1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	CH Smith Const. Inc. dba Verdigris Valley Sod Farms	CLAREMORE, OK	1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Pauma Valley	PAUMA VALLEY, CA	1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	East Coast Nurseries Inc.	RIVERHEAD, NY	1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	LaGrande Farms	WILLIAMS	22 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Del Carlo Farms, Inc.	STOCKTON	22 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Linda Vista Farms	RIVERDALE	22 FTE
STATE-SIZE	MOUNTAIN VIEW FARM SHOP	BAKERSFIELD	22 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Ford Bldg	North Hills	357 FTE
CITY-NEAR	New Horizons: Serving Individuals With Special Needs	North Hills	304 FTE
CITY-NEAR	FedEx 16633 SCHOENBORN ST	North Hills	255 FTE
CITY-NEAR	913430000	North Hills	218 FTE
NAT-TCR	RS Electric Corp	St. Joseph, MO	1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Veritiv Operating Company - SC008	Columbia, SC	1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Florida Food Products, LLC	Eustis, FL	1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Big Lots Store #5217 Holbrook, NY	Holbrook, NY	1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Fire Station 4	Des Moines, IA	22 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Fire Station 7	Des Moines, IA	22 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Fire Station 5	Des Moines, IA	22 FTE
NAT-SIZE	DB Electrical	Kingsport, TN	22 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: 2023, 2022, 2017. 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.