Potato farming, field and seed potato production · Indiana

Black Gold Farms - INW

Name: Black Gold Farms - INW Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Winamac, IN · ~31 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 4.7
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Black Gold Farms - INW runs at 103% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Potato farming, field and seed potato production workplace, earning a grade C.

Black Gold Farms - INW: 4.7 TCR = 103% of Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Black Gold Farms - INW safety composite

Black Gold Farms - INW 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).

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 4.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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%).

TCR Δ

−8.3

2016→2020

Black Gold Farms - INW injury rate improved

Black Gold Farms - INW's TCR fell 8.3 from 11.1 in 2016 to 2.8 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 11.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.1 · 2018=0.0 · 2020=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111211 · Winamac, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.7 · 103% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK P56
PHOTO Farm
BOOK 3y book
INJ 4 inj
SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Farm (0.0 TCR gap)

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STS Ranch LLC

4.8
This site

4.7
Walther Farms

4.7
Farm

4.6
Allied Potato

4.6

What this shows Black Gold Farms - INW averages 4.7 TCR (103% of the Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS benchmark).

Black Gold Farms - INW TCR series: 2016=11.1 · 2018=0 · 2020=2.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Black Gold Farms - INW falls in its industry

153 Potato farming, field and seed establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Black Gold Farms - INW (31 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Black Gold Farms - INW 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
2020	2.8	0.0	1
2018	0.0	0.0	0
2016	11.1	7.4	3

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111211 · IN · Winamac

153 Potato farming, field and seed potato production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 11 employers in Winamac, IN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Farm	FORT PIERCE, FL	4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Allied Potato Inc.	BAKERSFIELD, CA	4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Walther Farms SC	WINDSOR, SC	4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	STS Ranch LLC	LIVINGSTON, CA	4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Midwest Pullet Farm	MENTONE	31 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Whitestown, IN	WHITESTOWN	31 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Sullivan Service Center	SULLIVAN	31 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Baer Field Svc Ctr	FORT WAYNE	31 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Pulaski Memorial Hospital	Winamac	309 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Galbreath LLC	Winamac	157 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Plymouth Tube Company	Winamac	109 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Pulaski Health Care Center	Winamac	79 FTE
NAT-TCR	Thomas Eilen	Hampton, MN	4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Community Living Centers, Inc.	Farmington, MI	4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	APC Paper Company, Inc.	Claremont, NH	4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	SFS Englewood-266APA	Englewood, CO	4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	LaQuinta Inn & Suites-MH1	Maryland Heights, MO	31 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Ricky s Oil and Environmental Services LLC	Miami, FL	31 FTE
NAT-SIZE	8652 Otis St	South Gate, CA	31 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Marinemax Northeast, LLC-Ne2	Danvers, MA	31 FTE

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, 2016. 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.