Potato farming, field and seed potato production · Michigan

Black Gold Farms - MIS

Name: Black Gold Farms - MIS Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Sturgis, MI · ~23 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 12.4
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 1
Fatality

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The verdict

Black Gold Farms - MIS runs at 275% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Potato farming, field and seed potato production workplace, earning a grade F.

Black Gold Farms - MIS: 12.4 TCR = 275% of Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Black Gold Farms - MIS safety composite

Black Gold Farms - MIS scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 13% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 5%), 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).

9/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 12.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers
DART rate: F 6.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers
Fatalities: F 1

Safer than 5% 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

−2.1

2016→2020

Black Gold Farms - MIS injury rate improved

Black Gold Farms - MIS's TCR fell 2.1 from 12.5 in 2016 to 10.4 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 14.3 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=12.5 · 2018=14.3 · 2020=10.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111211 · Sturgis, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.4 · 275% of ind

DART 6.9 DART
RANK #6/6
PHOTO Black Gold Farms - NDF
BOOK 3y book
INJ 8 inj
SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Black Gold Farms - NDF (0.2 TCR gap)

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This site

12.4
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11.9
H2A Complete I

11.9

What this shows Black Gold Farms - MIS averages 12.4 TCR (275% of the Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS benchmark).

Black Gold Farms - MIS TCR series: 2016=12.5 · 2018=14.3 · 2020=10.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Black Gold Farms - MIS falls in its industry

153 Potato farming, field and seed establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Potato farming, field and seed employers in Michigan.

Black Gold Farms - MIS (23 employees, TCR 12.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Black Gold Farms - MIS 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	10.4	6.9	2	1	1
2018	14.3	7.2	4	0	0
2016	12.5	4.2	2	1	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111211 · MI · Sturgis

153 Potato farming, field and seed potato production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 35 employers in Sturgis, MI · 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	Black Gold Farms - NDF	FOREST RIVER, ND	12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Eagle Ag Operations, LLC	IDAHO FALLS, ID	12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Pasco Farming	NAMPA, ID	11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	H2A Complete II, Inc. Atlantic Harvesting	SOUTHAVEN, MS	11.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Casey Woodwyk, Inc.	HUDSONVILLE	23 FTE
STATE-SIZE	John Schuring, Jr. Company	PORTAGE	23 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Atwood Timber and Lumber	CEDAR SPRINGS	23 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Grayling Generating Station	GRAYLING	23 FTE
CITY-NEAR	AN Sturgis	Sturgis	482 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Morgan Olson Plant 5	Sturgis	426 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Morgan Olson Plant 1	Sturgis	357 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Burr Oak Tool Inc.	Sturgis	314 FTE
NAT-TCR	Granite Valley Forest Products	Marathon City, WI	12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Living Center West	Cedar Rapids, IA	12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Bickford of Iowa City	Iowa City, IA	12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	4765-OKCCX0178	Oklahoma City, OK	12.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	RRC Specialties	Isanti, MN	23 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Amarillo Sod Farm	Amarillo, TX	23 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Visitors Management	Kingsville, TX	23 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Gopher Ridge Grove	Immokalee, FL	23 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.