Tobacco farming, field and seed production · North Carolina

Wester Farms LLC

Louisburg, NC · ~14 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wester Farms LLC runs at 125% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Tobacco farming, field and seed production workplace, earning a grade D.

Wester Farms LLC: 5.6 TCR = 125% of Tobacco farming, field and seed production BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wester Farms LLC safety composite

Wester Farms LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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).

F

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Wester Farms LLC: 0.0 → 11.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.3 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

Wester Farms LLC's TCR rose 11.3 from 0.0 in 2023 to 11.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111910 · Louisburg, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 125% of ind

  • DART 11.3 DART
  • RANK #13/15
  • PHOTO K&K Tobacco Farms LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~14 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: K&K Tobacco Farms LLC (0.8 TCR gap)

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Wester Farms LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wester Farms LLC averages 5.6 TCR (125% 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

Wester Farms LLC TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=11.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Wester Farms LLC falls in its industry

22 Tobacco farming, field and see establishments

Safer than 9% 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 #13 safest of 15 Tobacco farming, field and see employers in North Carolina.

Wester Farms LLC (14 employees, TCR 5.6) among 9 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 25 employees and a TCR of 1.6 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 10 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.Thomas Family Farms, Inc.FARMHolland Farms, IncWester Farms LLC
Wester Farms LLC (14 employees, TCR 5.6) among 9 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 25 employees and a TCR of 1.6

Wester Farms LLC 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 11.3 11.3 1 1 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111910 · NC · Louisburg

22 Tobacco farming, field and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 23 employers in Louisburg, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR K&K Tobacco Farms LLC 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rock Ridge Farms Partnership 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vickers Farms 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Andrew Tyson Farms 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE 0780 - SPINDALE NC 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cameron NC 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roses Express 501 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Goldsboro/ Maintenance Division 14 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1953 224 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1953 218 FTE
CITY-NEAR Franklin Oaks Nursing & Rehabiitation 134 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eagle Peak LTC Group, LLC d/b/a Franklin Oaks Nursing & Rehabiitation 126 FTE
NAT-TCR Cal-Tex Electric, Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR EDM, Inc 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR BBI Aurora 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Suncoast Industries of Florida 5.6 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. 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.