Potato farming, field and seed potato production · Idaho

Jentzsch Kearl Farms

Rupert, ID · ~275 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Jentzsch Kearl Farms runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Potato farming, field and seed potato production workplace, earning a grade C.

Jentzsch Kearl Farms: 4.9 TCR = 108% of Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Jentzsch Kearl Farms safety composite

Jentzsch Kearl Farms scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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

Jentzsch Kearl Farms: 3.1 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.42× in 2024

Jentzsch Kearl Farms's TCR rose 3.6 from 3.1 in 2023 to 6.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111211 · Rupert, ID ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.9 · 108% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #6/13
  • PHOTO Wayne Bailey Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~275 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wayne Bailey Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Jentzsch Kearl Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Jentzsch Kearl Farms averages 4.9 TCR (108% 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

Jentzsch Kearl Farms TCR series: 2023=3.1 · 2024=6.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Jentzsch Kearl Farms falls in its industry

153 Potato farming, field and seed establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Idaho alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 13 Potato farming, field and seed employers in Idaho.

Jentzsch Kearl Farms (275 employees, TCR 4.9) 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 Jentzsch Kearl Farms
Jentzsch Kearl Farms (275 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Jentzsch Kearl Farms 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
2024 6.7 2.1 25 1 0
2023 3.1 0.4 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111211 · ID · Rupert

153 Potato farming, field and seed potato production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,774 rated employers in Idaho with headcount on file · 21 employers in Rupert, ID · 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 Wayne Bailey Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Walther Farms UP 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR CSS Farms, LLC Pasco, WA Farm 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Black Gold Farms Rhodesdale 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Thrift Stores 275 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spudnik Equipment Company - Blackfoot Location 273 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1905 273 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2861 271 FTE
CITY-NEAR LAND VIEW INC 224 FTE
CITY-NEAR Whitesides Dairy 2016 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR Whitesides Dairy 107 FTE
CITY-NEAR Potato Pack Plant 96 FTE
NAT-TCR A.S.K. Foods, Inc. West Plant 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Education Center 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Thirty Inc 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Egads LLC 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lake Forest Place LLC 275 FTE
NAT-SIZE Life Care Center of Winter Haven 275 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Mexico Oncology Hematology Consultants, Ltd.. 275 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hayward Laboratories Inc. 275 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. 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.