Potato farming, field and seed potato production · Maryland

Black Gold Farms Rhodesdale

Rhodesdale, MD · ~14 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Black Gold Farms Rhodesdale runs at 107% 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 Rhodesdale: 4.8 TCR = 107% of Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Black Gold Farms Rhodesdale safety composite

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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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

−9.6

2022→2024

Black Gold Farms Rhodesdale injury rate improved

Black Gold Farms Rhodesdale's TCR fell 9.6 from 9.6 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=9.6 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 4.8 · 107% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P54
  • PHOTO Wayne Bailey Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~14 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wayne Bailey Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Black Gold Farms Rhodesdale in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Black Gold Farms Rhodesdale averages 4.8 TCR (107% 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 Rhodesdale TCR series: 2022=9.6 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Black Gold Farms Rhodesdale falls in its industry

153 Potato farming, field and seed establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Black Gold Farms Rhodesdale (14 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 Rhodesdale
Black Gold Farms Rhodesdale (14 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Black Gold Farms Rhodesdale 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 9.6 4.8 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Wayne Bailey Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR STS Ranch LLC 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jentzsch Kearl Farms 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Walther Farms SC 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Potomac Surfacing LLC 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southland MAD Purple Line 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE GreenbeltCorporate Office 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northeast 14 FTE
CITY-NEAR Black Gold Farms - MDR 24 FTE
NAT-TCR Monitor Manufacturing 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR TRH005 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Kellyville School District 31 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR API Carolina 4.8 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: 2024, 2022. 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.