Potato Farming · Nebraska

Elkhorn River Farms

O'Neill, NE · ~31 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Elkhorn River Farms runs at 164% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Potato Farming workplace, earning a grade D.

Elkhorn River Farms: 7.4 TCR = 164% of Potato Farming BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Elkhorn River Farms safety composite

Elkhorn River Farms scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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).

F

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Elkhorn River Farms: 2.5 → 11.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.07× in 2024

Elkhorn River Farms's TCR rose 9.3 from 2.5 in 2016 to 11.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111211 · O'Neill, NE ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.4 · 164% of ind

  • DART 7.9 DART
  • RANK #7/10
  • PHOTO Black Gold Farms Cam…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Black Gold Farms Camden (0.1 TCR gap)

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Elkhorn River Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Elkhorn River Farms averages 7.4 TCR (164% of the Potato Farming BLS benchmark).

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

Elkhorn River Farms TCR series: 2016=2.5 · 2019=2.7 · 2021=9.1 · 2022=10.7 · 2023=7.5 · 2024=11.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Elkhorn River Farms falls in its industry

153 Potato Farming establishments

Safer than 26% 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 #7 safest of 10 Potato Farming employers in Nebraska.

Elkhorn River Farms (31 employees, TCR 7.4) 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 Elkhorn River Farms
Elkhorn River Farms (31 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Elkhorn River Farms has fewer employees than the Potato Farming 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 11.8 7.9 3 0 0
2023 7.5 0.0 2 0 0
2022 10.7 10.7 2 0 0
2021 9.1 6.0 3 0 0
2019 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2016 2.5 2.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111211 · NE · O'Neill

153 Potato Farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 9 employers in O'Neill, 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 Black Gold Farms Camden 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Black Gold Farms MOC 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Walther Farms Cass City 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greenridge Farming Inc. 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE CSS Farms, LLC Minden, NE 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE CSS Farms - Minden 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oshkosh Heifer Development 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roberts Cattle Company 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avera St. Anthony's Hospital 234 FTE
CITY-NEAR O'Neill Valley Hope 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bomgaars Supply,Inc. - O'Neill 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Evergreen ALF 30 FTE
NAT-TCR 0799 - North Sarasota 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 1052 - Wyoming 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Dealers Auto Auction of the Southwest 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Silva & Sons Landscaping, LLC 7.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lmmm Dallas #36, LTD. 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dynamic Air Engineering Inc. 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Interload Forwarding, LLC - Laredo 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fairfield Inn Mission Viejo 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2016. 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.