Potassic fertilizers made by mixing purchased materials · Wisconsin

Black's Valley Ag Services, Inc.

Durand, WI · ~39 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Black's Valley Ag Services, Inc. runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Potassic fertilizers made by mixing purchased materials workplace, earning a grade C.

Black's Valley Ag Services, Inc.: 2.8 TCR = 86% of Potassic fertilizers made by mixing purchased materials BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Black's Valley Ag Services, Inc. safety composite

Black's Valley Ag Services, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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)
C 2.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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's Valley Ag Services, Inc.: 0.0 → 5.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 5.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2017

Black's Valley Ag Services, Inc.'s TCR rose 5.7 from 0.0 in 2016 to 5.7 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325314 · Durand, WI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 86% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/5
  • PHOTO Austin Wood Recyclin…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Austin Wood Recycling Inc. - Austin (0.0 TCR gap)

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Black's Valley Ag Services, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Black's Valley Ag Services, Inc. averages 2.8 TCR (86% of the Potassic fertilizers made by mixing purchased materials BLS benchmark).

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

Black's Valley Ag Services, Inc. TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=5.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Black's Valley Ag Services, Inc. falls in its industry

163 Potassic fertilizers made by m establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 5 Potassic fertilizers made by m employers in Wisconsin.

Black's Valley Ag Services, Inc. (39 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Black's Valley Ag Services, Inc.
Black's Valley Ag Services, Inc. (39 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Black's Valley Ag Services, Inc. has fewer employees than the Potassic fertilizers made by mixing purc median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2017 5.7 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325314 · WI · Durand

163 Potassic fertilizers made by mixing purchased materials employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 22 employers in Durand, WI · 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 Austin Wood Recycling Inc. - Austin 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vermicrop Organics 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cytozyme Laboratories 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR J-V Dirt + Loam 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Green Bay Substation East 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ashland Service Center-5B 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE BCI Exteriors, Inc. 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Horizon - Corporate Office 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chippewa Valley Hospital 105 FTE
CITY-NEAR AdventHealth Durand 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR Komro Sales & Service Inc. Durand, WI 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bauer Built, Inc. 57 FTE
NAT-TCR N and R of Seymour Inc 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Lawrence Service LLC 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR ANATH - Gainesville- GA 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR MS - Hill AFB, UT - 1HAUT 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rai Mx Ewr 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Gerald Inc 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Green Lake Tube LLC 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE HBSHSEMD26 39 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: 2017, 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.