Potato farming, field and seed potato production · Missouri

Black Gold Farms Charleston

Charleston, MO · ~11 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Black Gold Farms Charleston runs at 54% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Potato farming, field and seed potato production workplace, earning a grade B.

Black Gold Farms Charleston: 2.4 TCR = 54% of Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Black Gold Farms Charleston safety composite

Black Gold Farms Charleston scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 54%), 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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 Charleston: 0.0 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Black Gold Farms Charleston's TCR rose 4.9 from 0.0 in 2022 to 4.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111211 · Charleston, MO AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 54% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/4
  • PHOTO Rhinelander Ag Resea…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~11 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rhinelander Ag Research (0.0 TCR gap)

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Black Gold Farms Charleston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Black Gold Farms Charleston averages 2.4 TCR (54% 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 Charleston TCR series: 2022=0 · 2024=4.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Black Gold Farms Charleston falls in its industry

153 Potato farming, field and seed establishments

Safer than 81% 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 #1 safest of 4 Potato farming, field and seed employers in Missouri.

Black Gold Farms Charleston (11 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 Charleston
Black Gold Farms Charleston (11 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Black Gold Farms Charleston has fewer employees than the Potato farming, field and seed potato pr median and a lower 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 4.9 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111211 · MO · Charleston

153 Potato farming, field and seed potato production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 7 employers in Charleston, MO · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Rhinelander Ag Research 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sweet Potato Packing House 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Black Gold Farms - LAD 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kitchen Farms, Inc. 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics MO Vaccination 006-0124-00 11 FTE
STATE-SIZE McCord Gin Company, Inc 11 FTE
STATE-SIZE Integrated Proteins - Purdy 11 FTE
STATE-SIZE St. Louis 11 FTE
CITY-NEAR TNI - Charleston, MO 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR N and R of Charleston LLC 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tri-National, Inc 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR COUNTRY MART #3815 27 FTE
NAT-TCR 3863 Harrison 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cennox Security Products 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Dean Electric Company Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant 349 2.4 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.