Potato farming, field and seed potato production · Maryland

Black Gold Farms - MDR

Rhodesdale, MD · ~24 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Black Gold Farms - MDR runs at 145% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Potato farming, field and seed potato production workplace, earning a grade D.

Black Gold Farms - MDR: 6.5 TCR = 145% of Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Black Gold Farms - MDR safety composite

Black Gold Farms - MDR scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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).

F

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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 - MDR: 6.3 → 10.2 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 10.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.04× in 2020

Black Gold Farms - MDR's TCR rose 3.9 from 6.3 in 2016 to 10.2 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111211 · Rhodesdale, MD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 145% of ind

  • DART 6.8 DART
  • RANK P35
  • PHOTO Bowles Farming Compa…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bowles Farming Company,Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Black Gold Farms - MDR in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Black Gold Farms - MDR averages 6.5 TCR (145% 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 - MDR TCR series: 2016=6.3 · 2018=3.1 · 2020=10.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Black Gold Farms - MDR falls in its industry

153 Potato farming, field and seed establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Black Gold Farms - MDR (24 employees, TCR 6.5) 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 - MDR
Black Gold Farms - MDR (24 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Black Gold Farms - MDR has fewer employees than the Potato farming, field and seed potato pr median and a higher 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 10.2 6.8 3 0 0
2018 3.1 0.0 1 0 0
2016 6.3 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111211 · MD · Rhodesdale

153 Potato farming, field and seed potato production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 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 Bowles Farming Company,Inc. 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gumz Muck Farms, LLC 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Green Thumb Farms 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR TN 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Keys Energy Center 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blakely Building 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE 309-NiSource-Hagerstown MD 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rockville Town Center II 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Black Gold Farms Rhodesdale 14 FTE
NAT-TCR Amzl : Dms1 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Discovery Elementary School 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Celtic Building Supplies 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Omni Jacksonville Hotel 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE MS Houston 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Education, Employment, and Training 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE RRC - Colby 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Everett 235 24 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.