Potato farming, field and seed potato production · North Carolina

Black Gold Farms - NCC

Columbia, NC · ~29 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

Black Gold Farms - NCC runs at 100% 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 - NCC: 4.5 TCR = 100% of Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Black Gold Farms - NCC safety composite

Black Gold Farms - NCC 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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%).

TCR Δ

−9.4

2016→2020

Black Gold Farms - NCC injury rate improved

Black Gold Farms - NCC's TCR fell 9.4 from 9.4 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 9.4 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.4 · 2018=4.1 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111211 · Columbia, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.5 · 100% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO Salinas Transplant C…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Salinas Transplant Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Black Gold Farms - NCC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Black Gold Farms - NCC averages 4.5 TCR (100% 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 - NCC TCR series: 2016=9.4 · 2018=4.1 · 2020=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Black Gold Farms - NCC falls in its industry

153 Potato farming, field and seed establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

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

Black Gold Farms - NCC (29 employees, TCR 4.5) 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 - NCC
Black Gold Farms - NCC (29 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Black Gold Farms - NCC 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 4.1 0.0 1 0 0
2016 9.4 9.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111211 · NC · Columbia

153 Potato farming, field and seed potato production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 6 employers in Columbia, NC · 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 Salinas Transplant Company 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR BETTERAVIA FARMS 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mickelsen Farms 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sea View Farm Linton 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod - Sandhill 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cowans Ford 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Craven County Wood Energy 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brunswick Electric Membership Cooperative - 2 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR 02110 - STORE # 2110 COLUMBIA 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2110 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR NEW COLONY SOW FARM 6276 -EST 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tyrrell House 35 FTE
NAT-TCR Parkridge East Hospital 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Brandon Regional Hospital 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ali Industries 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Flagship Press Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE New Beginning, Inc 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mercer County Surgery Center 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern Gardens Citrus Nursery, LLC 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thompson Concrete Ltd. 29 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.