Potato farming, field and seed potato production · Missouri

Black Gold Farms Arbyrd

Arbyrd, MO · ~14 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Black Gold Farms Arbyrd runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Potato farming, field and seed potato production workplace, earning a grade D.

Black Gold Farms Arbyrd: 8.7 TCR = 192% of Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Black Gold Farms Arbyrd safety composite

Black Gold Farms Arbyrd scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

Black Gold Farms Arbyrd: 7.0 → 10.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.59× in 2024

Black Gold Farms Arbyrd's TCR rose 3.2 from 7.0 in 2022 to 10.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111211 · Arbyrd, MO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.7 · 192% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO JOHNSON POTATO FARMS…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~14 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: JOHNSON POTATO FARMS LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Black Gold Farms Arbyrd in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Black Gold Farms Arbyrd averages 8.7 TCR (192% 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

Black Gold Farms Arbyrd TCR series: 2022=7 · 2024=10.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Black Gold Farms Arbyrd falls in its industry

153 Potato farming, field and seed establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Potato farming, field and seed employers in Missouri.

Black Gold Farms Arbyrd (14 employees, TCR 8.7) 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 Black Gold Farms Arbyrd
Black Gold Farms Arbyrd (14 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Black Gold Farms Arbyrd 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
2024 10.3 5.1 2 0 0
2022 7.0 3.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111211 · MO · Arbyrd

153 Potato farming, field and seed potato production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 4 employers in Arbyrd, MO · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR JOHNSON POTATO FARMS LLC 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR CSS Farms - Cody 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wysocki Produce Farm - Plainfield 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Park Rapids Trucking 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sibley Generation Station 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE Division 7, Inc. 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE O'Neill Painting II, Inc. 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alton 14 FTE
CITY-NEAR Black Gold Farms - MOA 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arbyrd 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Black Gold Farms - MOP 20 FTE
NAT-TCR 6665 S Corona 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR MHHS-Greater Heights 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Food Stores 6517 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Carrier Clinic INT 8.7 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: 2024, 2022. 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.