Potato farming, field and seed potato production · Oregon

Amstad Farming Company - Hermiston Area

Echo, OR · ~18 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Amstad Farming Company - Hermiston Area runs at 216% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Potato farming, field and seed potato production workplace, earning a grade F.

Amstad Farming Company - Hermiston Area: 9.7 TCR = 216% of Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Amstad Farming Company - Hermiston Area safety composite

Amstad Farming Company - Hermiston Area scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

Amstad Farming Company - Hermiston Area: 5.8 → 17.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 17.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.32× in 2019

Amstad Farming Company - Hermiston Area's TCR rose 11.2 from 5.8 in 2017 to 17.0 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111211 · Echo, OR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.7 · 216% of ind

  • DART 12.8 DART
  • RANK #8/12
  • PHOTO Weber Farms
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Weber Farms (0.2 TCR gap)

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Amstad Farming Company - Hermiston Area in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Amstad Farming Company - Hermiston Area averages 9.7 TCR (216% of the Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS benchmark).

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

Amstad Farming Company - Hermiston Area TCR series: 2017=5.8 · 2018=6.3 · 2019=17 · BLS 4.5

Where Amstad Farming Company - Hermiston Area falls in its industry

153 Potato farming, field and seed establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 12 Potato farming, field and seed employers in Oregon.

Amstad Farming Company - Hermiston Area (18 employees, TCR 9.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Amstad Farming Company - Hermiston Area
Amstad Farming Company - Hermiston Area (18 employees, TCR 9.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Amstad Farming Company - Hermiston Area has fewer employees than the Potato farming, field and seed potato pr median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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
2019 17.0 12.8 4 0 0
2018 6.3 0.0 1 0 0
2017 5.8 5.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111211 · OR · Echo

153 Potato farming, field and seed potato production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Weber Farms 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alsum Farms Inc. 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hoverson Farms 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR CSS Farms - Dalhart 9.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Performance Insulation - Executive Office 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gehring Farms 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Breyman Farms Inc 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bremer 18 FTE
NAT-TCR Langes Corners 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0005 0722 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Brittain Machine Inc 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Flambeau Baraboo Blow Molding 9.7 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.