Potato farming, field and seed potato production · Nebraska

CSS Farms - Minden

Minden, NE · ~31 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

CSS Farms - Minden runs at 123% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Potato farming, field and seed potato production workplace, earning a grade D.

CSS Farms - Minden: 5.5 TCR = 123% of Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

CSS Farms - Minden safety composite

CSS Farms - Minden scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47%), 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 5.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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

−2.4

2018→2021

CSS Farms - Minden injury rate improved

CSS Farms - Minden's TCR fell 2.4 from 5.8 in 2018 to 3.4 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 9.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=5.8 · 2019=3.2 · 2020=9.8 · 2021=3.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111211 · Minden, NE ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 123% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/10
  • PHOTO CSS Farms - Bliss
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CSS Farms - Bliss (0.1 TCR gap)

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CSS Farms - Minden in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows CSS Farms - Minden averages 5.5 TCR (123% 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

CSS Farms - Minden TCR series: 2018=5.8 · 2019=3.2 · 2020=9.8 · 2021=3.4 · BLS 4.5

Where CSS Farms - Minden falls in its industry

153 Potato farming, field and seed establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 10 Potato farming, field and seed employers in Nebraska.

CSS Farms - Minden (31 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 CSS Farms - Minden
CSS Farms - Minden (31 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

CSS Farms - Minden 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
2021 3.4 0.0 1 0 0
2020 9.8 6.5 3 0 0
2019 3.2 3.2 1 0 0
2018 5.8 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111211 · NE · Minden

153 Potato farming, field and seed potato production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 7 employers in Minden, NE · 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 CSS Farms - Bliss 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Black Gold Farms Sturgis 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zuckerman Family Farms 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Walther Farms LLC 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE CSS Farms, LLC Minden, NE 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elkhorn River Farms 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oshkosh Heifer Development 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roberts Cattle Company 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Royal Engineered Composites 204 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kearney County Health Services 116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Minden Machine Shop, Inc 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR KAAPA Ethanol, LLC 43 FTE
NAT-TCR Avnatara Clark City 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Great Lakes Veneer, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR K1 Plant 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lexington Place 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Eastprint, Inc. 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hotel Santa Barbara 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Remington, The 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manor at Steeplechase, The 31 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.