Packing fruits and vegetables · Missouri

Black Gold Farms - MOP

Arbyrd, MO · ~20 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Black Gold Farms - MOP runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Packing fruits and vegetables workplace, earning a grade D.

Black Gold Farms - MOP: 5.8 TCR = 130% of Packing fruits and vegetables BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Black Gold Farms - MOP safety composite

Black Gold Farms - MOP scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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 - MOP: 7.1 → 10.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 10.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

Black Gold Farms - MOP's TCR rose 3.3 from 7.1 in 2016 to 10.4 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115114 · Arbyrd, MO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 130% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #13/13
  • PHOTO Chase Pecan, LP
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chase Pecan, LP (0.0 TCR gap)

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Black Gold Farms - MOP in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Black Gold Farms - MOP averages 5.8 TCR (130% of the Packing fruits and vegetables BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Black Gold Farms - MOP TCR series: 2016=7.1 · 2018=0 · 2020=10.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Black Gold Farms - MOP falls in its industry

666 Packing fruits and vegetables establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 13 Packing fruits and vegetables employers in Missouri.

Black Gold Farms - MOP (20 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Black Gold Farms - MOP
Black Gold Farms - MOP (20 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Black Gold Farms - MOP has fewer employees than the Packing fruits and vegetables median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 0.0 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 7.1 7.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · MO · Arbyrd

666 Packing fruits and vegetables employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 4 employers in Arbyrd, MO · 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 Chase Pecan, LP 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Redwood Falls, MN-FND 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fowler Packing West 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Russellville 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE CoverCress INC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE RUCKMAN #9 - 16 & 27 -EST 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Silver Creek Pig, Inc. 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newport Farms, LLC. 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Black Gold Farms - MOA 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arbyrd 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Black Gold Farms Arbyrd 14 FTE
NAT-TCR Lci - 214 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Y5Q L.E.Smith (1874) Incorporated 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Tmx2624 - Niceville 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 532 Waco, Tx 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Closure Systems International, Inc. (aka - East Plant) 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Foster Botanical Gardens 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carlile Transportation Systems, LLC - Prudhoe Bay Terminal 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 0780 20 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.