Sweet potato farming, field and seed potato production · Louisiana

Black Gold Farms - LAD

Delhi, LA · ~232 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
2
Fatalities
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The verdict

Black Gold Farms - LAD runs at 52% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Sweet potato farming, field and seed potato production workplace, earning a grade B.

Black Gold Farms - LAD: 2.3 TCR = 52% of Sweet potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Black Gold Farms - LAD safety composite

Black Gold Farms - LAD scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 0%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 2

Safer than 0% 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 - LAD: 0.7 → 83.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 83.3 TCR · DART/TCR 35.04× in 2020

Black Gold Farms - LAD's TCR rose 82.5 from 0.7 in 2016 to 83.3 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 35.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111211 · Delhi, LA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 52% of ind

  • DART 81.7 DART
  • RANK P82
  • PHOTO Sweet Potato Packing…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~232 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sweet Potato Packing House (0.0 TCR gap)

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Black Gold Farms - LAD in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Black Gold Farms - LAD averages 2.3 TCR (52% of the Sweet 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 - LAD TCR series: 2016=0.7 · 2018=3.9 · 2020=83.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Black Gold Farms - LAD falls in its industry

153 Sweet potato farming, field an establishments

Safer than 82% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Black Gold Farms - LAD (232 employees, TCR 2.3) 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 - LAD
Black Gold Farms - LAD (232 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Black Gold Farms - LAD has more employees than the Sweet potato farming, field and seed pot 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
2020 83.3 81.7 5 150 2
2018 3.9 1.7 7 0 0
2016 0.7 0.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111211 · LA · Delhi

153 Sweet potato farming, field and seed potato production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 15 employers in Delhi, LA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Sweet Potato Packing House 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Black Gold Farms Charleston 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rhinelander Ag Research 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Liberty Foods, LLC 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bernhard MRC - Louisiana 232 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1196 232 FTE
STATE-SIZE Baywater Drilling, LLC 233 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ronpak, Inc. Louisiana 231 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hydro - Delhi 359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hydro Delhi 275 FTE
CITY-NEAR DELHI LA 273 FTE
CITY-NEAR Black Gold Farms Delhi 187 FTE
NAT-TCR Program Transportation, Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Methodist Behavioral Health Hospital 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Anaheim, City Hall 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Pioneer East 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1969-FSL1 232 FTE
NAT-SIZE Location 48004 232 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ram Tool Construction Supply Company - Corporate 232 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mid-America Conversion Services, LLC - Paducah 232 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.

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

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