Potato farming, field and seed potato production · Florida

Black Gold Farms Live Oak

Live Oak, FL · ~22 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Black Gold Farms Live Oak runs at 85% 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 Live Oak: 3.8 TCR = 85% of Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Black Gold Farms Live Oak safety composite

Black Gold Farms Live Oak 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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 Live Oak: 0.0 → 7.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Black Gold Farms Live Oak's TCR rose 7.6 from 0.0 in 2022 to 7.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111211 · Live Oak, FL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 85% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO Canyon Falls Farms
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Canyon Falls Farms (0.0 TCR gap)

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Black Gold Farms Live Oak in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Black Gold Farms Live Oak averages 3.8 TCR (85% 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 Live Oak TCR series: 2022=0 · 2024=7.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Black Gold Farms Live Oak falls in its industry

153 Potato farming, field and seed establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 Potato farming, field and seed employers in Florida.

Black Gold Farms Live Oak (22 employees, TCR 3.8) 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 Live Oak
Black Gold Farms Live Oak (22 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Black Gold Farms Live Oak 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 7.6 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111211 · FL · Live Oak

153 Potato farming, field and seed potato production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 46 employers in Live Oak, FL · 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 Canyon Falls Farms 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bud of CA Cauliflower AZ 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Olsen Ag Inc 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR CSS Farms, LLC Bliss, NY 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Barben Fruit Company, Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE SOARING EAGLE NURSERY 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hatchery- Live Oak, FL 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ringling Service Center 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1243 CP - Live Oak, FL 1,532 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1243 - Plant - Live Oak, FL 1,473 FTE
CITY-NEAR Suwanee Music Park & Campground 861 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advent Christian Village 428 FTE
NAT-TCR Lapham Hickey Steel Corp 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Lhp Hh1 LLC 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Eau Claire Otr Transportation - 3049 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 158 East 84th Street 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Specialty Pharmacy 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE JS Products Ohio 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wheel Pros 1008 Nothern California 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE NJ008 South Plainfield Rebale 22 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: 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.