Packing fruits and vegetables · Minnesota

Black Gold Farms - EGF

East Grand Forks, MN · ~19 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Black Gold Farms - EGF runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Packing fruits and vegetables workplace, earning a grade D.

Black Gold Farms - EGF: 5.5 TCR = 122% of Packing fruits and vegetables BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Black Gold Farms - EGF safety composite

Black Gold Farms - EGF scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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).

D

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

TCR Δ

−11.0

2018→2020

Black Gold Farms - EGF injury rate improved

Black Gold Farms - EGF's TCR fell 11.0 from 11.0 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 11.0 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=11.0 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115114 · East Grand Forks, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 122% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #14/16
  • PHOTO OCEAN SPRAY CRANBERR…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OCEAN SPRAY CRANBERRIES INC. - CHATSWORTH RECEIVING (0.0 TCR gap)

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Black Gold Farms - EGF in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Black Gold Farms - EGF averages 5.5 TCR (122% of the Packing fruits and vegetables BLS benchmark).

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

Black Gold Farms - EGF TCR series: 2018=11 · 2020=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Black Gold Farms - EGF falls in its industry

666 Packing fruits and vegetables establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 16 Packing fruits and vegetables employers in Minnesota.

Black Gold Farms - EGF (19 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Black Gold Farms - EGF
Black Gold Farms - EGF (19 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Black Gold Farms - EGF has fewer employees than the Packing fruits and vegetables median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 11.0 5.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · MN · East Grand Forks

666 Packing fruits and vegetables employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 18 employers in East Grand Forks, MN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR OCEAN SPRAY CRANBERRIES INC. - CHATSWORTH RECEIVING 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shafter Wasco Ginning Co., Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SANTA BARBARA FARMS, LLC 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Podesta Packing LLC 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sabin Breeding 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schwartz Farms Tilney MN 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Danvers 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glyndon, MN 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMERICAN CRYSTAL SUGAR COMPANY EAST GRAND FORKS 406 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISD #595 263 FTE
CITY-NEAR R. J. Zavoral & Sons, Inc. 131 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hugo's #5 126 FTE
NAT-TCR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : MGE1 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Enterprise Rent A Car (Ft. Walton Airport) 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Moline Il Depot 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR ADC 5.5 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: 2020, 2018. 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.