Potato farming, field and seed potato production · Wisconsin

Heartland Farms, Incorporated

Hancock, WI · ~169 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Heartland Farms, Incorporated runs at 78% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Potato farming, field and seed potato production workplace, earning a grade B.

Heartland Farms, Incorporated: 3.5 TCR = 78% of Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Heartland Farms, Incorporated safety composite

Heartland Farms, Incorporated scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 54%), 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 3.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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

−3.4

2016→2017

Heartland Farms, Incorporated injury rate improved

Heartland Farms, Incorporated's TCR fell 3.4 from 5.2 in 2016 to 1.8 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.2 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.2 · 2017=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111211 · Hancock, WI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 3.5 · 78% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #2/7
  • PHOTO Kirschenmann Farms, …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~169 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kirschenmann Farms, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Heartland Farms, Incorporated in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Heartland Farms, Incorporated averages 3.5 TCR (78% 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

Heartland Farms, Incorporated TCR series: 2016=5.2 · 2017=1.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Heartland Farms, Incorporated falls in its industry

153 Potato farming, field and seed establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 7 Potato farming, field and seed employers in Wisconsin.

Heartland Farms, Incorporated (169 employees, TCR 3.5) 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 Heartland Farms, Incorporated
Heartland Farms, Incorporated (169 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Heartland Farms, Incorporated has more employees than the Potato farming, field and seed potato pr median and a lower 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
2017 1.8 0.6 2 1 0
2016 5.2 2.9 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111211 · WI · Hancock

153 Potato farming, field and seed potato production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 3 employers in Hancock, 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 Kirschenmann Farms, Inc 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR AgriNorthwest - Washington 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sterman Masser, Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR JR Simplot Company, LL Grandview Farms 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Foremost Farms USA (Appleton, WI) 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE AFP Clear Lake 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wisconsin Paperboard Grief (former Caraustar Industries, Inc. 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE Suttle-Straus 169 FTE
CITY-NEAR Seneca Foods Corporation 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Seneca Foods Hancock 48 FTE
NAT-TCR Pottsville (Papot) 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Huntsville (Alhun) 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Eagle #1225 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Dresseler Mechanical Inc 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Giant Food Stores 6309 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE TriMet Center Bus Maintenance Building 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pyramid Minneapolis Management LLC 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE Automation and Controls : GA - RCR - Rochester, NY 169 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.