Potato farming, field and seed potato production · North Dakota

Dawson Farms

Dawson, ND · ~21 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dawson Farms runs at 291% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Potato farming, field and seed potato production workplace, earning a grade F.

Dawson Farms: 13.1 TCR = 291% of Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dawson Farms safety composite

Dawson Farms scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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 13.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Dawson Farms: 7.3 → 14.2 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 22.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Dawson Farms's TCR rose 6.9 from 7.3 in 2016 to 14.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 22.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111211 · Dawson, ND ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.1 · 291% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Fazio Ag LLC
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fazio Ag LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Dawson Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dawson Farms averages 13.1 TCR (291% 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

Dawson Farms TCR series: 2016=7.3 · 2017=19.4 · 2018=9.1 · 2019=22.7 · 2020=6.8 · 2022=18 · 2023=7.3 · 2024=14.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Dawson Farms falls in its industry

153 Potato farming, field and seed establishments

Safer than 6% 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 #4 safest of 4 Potato farming, field and seed employers in North Dakota.

Dawson Farms (21 employees, TCR 13.1) 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 Dawson Farms
Dawson Farms (21 employees, TCR 13.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Dawson Farms 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 14.2 0.0 4 0 0
2023 7.3 0.0 2 0 0
2022 18.0 7.2 5 0 0
2020 6.8 6.8 2 0 0
2019 22.7 6.5 7 0 0
2018 9.1 6.1 3 0 0
2017 19.4 0.0 5 0 0
2016 7.3 3.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111211 · ND · Dawson

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 · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Fazio Ag LLC 13.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eagle Ag Operations, LLC 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Black Gold Farms - NDF 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Black Gold Farms - MIS 12.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Charlson Field 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE LDI Energy Services LLC 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keene FST (KNEWD) 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE WAT Ashtabula 21 FTE
NAT-TCR Sysco Foodservice Seattle 13.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ashley House EW-6 13.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Public Works 13.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 103 Arizona Transportation 13.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE A.L.M. Electric Co., Inc. 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sanel NAPA Store #927 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vantage North Monroe, LLC 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northwest Electric, LLC - Columbus Branch 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, 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.