Potato farming, field and seed potato production · Michigan

Black Gold Farms Sturgis

Sturgis, MI · ~21 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Black Gold Farms Sturgis runs at 125% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Potato farming, field and seed potato production workplace, earning a grade D.

Black Gold Farms Sturgis: 5.6 TCR = 125% of Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Black Gold Farms Sturgis safety composite

Black Gold Farms Sturgis scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 46%), 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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

−3.8

2022→2024

Black Gold Farms Sturgis injury rate improved

Black Gold Farms Sturgis's TCR fell 3.8 from 7.5 in 2022 to 3.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 7.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=7.5 · 2024=3.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 125% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/6
  • PHOTO Zuckerman Family Farms
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Zuckerman Family Farms (0.0 TCR gap)

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Black Gold Farms Sturgis in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Black Gold Farms Sturgis averages 5.6 TCR (125% 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 Sturgis TCR series: 2022=7.5 · 2024=3.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Black Gold Farms Sturgis falls in its industry

153 Potato farming, field and seed establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 6 Potato farming, field and seed employers in Michigan.

Black Gold Farms Sturgis (21 employees, TCR 5.6) 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 Sturgis
Black Gold Farms Sturgis (21 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Black Gold Farms Sturgis 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
2024 3.7 0.0 1 0 0
2022 7.5 0.0 2 0 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Zuckerman Family Farms 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Walther Farms LLC 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR CSS Farms - Bliss 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR G & D Wallace, Inc 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE BE Cultivation 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4605_15228 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Willard DeHaan & Son Grnhs 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE C3 Industries, Inc - Webberville (P & FG) 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR AN Sturgis 482 FTE
CITY-NEAR Morgan Olson Plant 5 426 FTE
CITY-NEAR Morgan Olson Plant 1 357 FTE
CITY-NEAR Burr Oak Tool Inc. 314 FTE
NAT-TCR Germantown Iron & Steel 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR TMX2406 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Spring Arbor of Salisbury 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Endeavor Logistics Solutions LLC 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Evergreen Ace 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE CSS Farms, LLC Holbrook, ID 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE LaQuinta Inn & Suites South Burlington 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE HW Contracting, LLC 21 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: 2024, 2022. 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.