Potato farming, field and seed potato production · North Dakota

Black Gold Farms - NDF

Forest River, ND · ~18 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Black Gold Farms - NDF runs at 279% 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 - NDF: 12.6 TCR = 279% of Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Black Gold Farms - NDF safety composite

Black Gold Farms - NDF scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

−14.3

2016→2020

Black Gold Farms - NDF injury rate improved

Black Gold Farms - NDF's TCR fell 14.3 from 20.3 in 2016 to 6.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 20.3 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=20.3 · 2018=11.4 · 2020=6.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111211 · Forest River, ND ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.6 · 279% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Black Gold Farms - MIS
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

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

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Black Gold Farms - NDF in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Black Gold Farms - NDF averages 12.6 TCR (279% 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 - NDF TCR series: 2016=20.3 · 2018=11.4 · 2020=6 · BLS 4.5

Where Black Gold Farms - NDF falls in its industry

153 Potato farming, field and seed establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Potato farming, field and seed employers in North Dakota.

Black Gold Farms - NDF (18 employees, TCR 12.6) 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 - NDF
Black Gold Farms - NDF (18 employees, TCR 12.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Black Gold Farms - NDF 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 6.0 0.0 1 0 0
2018 11.4 5.7 2 0 0
2016 20.3 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111211 · ND · Forest River

153 Potato farming, field and seed potato production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,696 rated employers in North Dakota with headcount on file · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Black Gold Farms - MIS 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eagle Ag Operations, LLC 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dawson Farms 13.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fazio Ag LLC 13.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Turtle Mountain Pork 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Viking Sow 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Demon Oilfield Services Corp. 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE WellPro, Inc. - Dickinson 18 FTE
NAT-TCR CCP - Cardinal Commercial Products 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Terminix Service, Inc. Bluffton 62- 24 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Wimsatt Building Materials - Grand Rapids 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Terminix Service, Inc. Columbia NE 61- 27 12.6 TCR

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.