Potato farming, field and seed potato production · Michigan

Kitchen Farms, Inc.

Elmira, MI · ~30 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kitchen Farms, Inc. runs at 57% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Potato farming, field and seed potato production workplace, earning a grade B.

Kitchen Farms, Inc.: 2.6 TCR = 57% of Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kitchen Farms, Inc. safety composite

Kitchen Farms, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

Kitchen Farms, Inc.: 3.0 → 4.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.82× in 2024

Kitchen Farms, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.7 from 3.0 in 2022 to 4.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111211 · Elmira, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 57% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #1/6
  • PHOTO Bud of CA Lettuce AZ
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bud of CA Lettuce AZ (0.1 TCR gap)

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Kitchen Farms, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kitchen Farms, Inc. averages 2.6 TCR (57% 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

Kitchen Farms, Inc. TCR series: 2022=3 · 2023=0.1 · 2024=4.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Kitchen Farms, Inc. falls in its industry

153 Potato farming, field and seed establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 6 Potato farming, field and seed employers in Michigan.

Kitchen Farms, Inc. (30 employees, TCR 2.6) 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 Kitchen Farms, Inc.
Kitchen Farms, Inc. (30 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Kitchen Farms, Inc. has fewer 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 4.7 4.7 1 0 0
2023 0.1 0.0 2 0 0
2022 3.0 2.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111211 · MI · Elmira

153 Potato farming, field and seed potato production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 3 employers in Elmira, MI · 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 Bud of CA Lettuce AZ 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rhinelander Ag Research 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Frenchman Valley Produce, Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Black Gold Farms Charleston 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Revolution Farms 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE TES Filer City Station 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Fermi II Nuclear Power Plant Project 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Three Rivers Service Center 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR EJ Co. 398 FTE
CITY-NEAR GFL Environmental Elmira Hauling and Transfer Station 50 FTE
NAT-TCR Parccenter Preschool 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Mc Carlton Contracting Inc. 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Magellan Aerospace 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Decatur Trucking Terminal 148 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Americold Logistics, LLC: Springdale 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Americold Logistics, LLC: Johnson 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE 32 Pearl LLC 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Balfour Beatty - Harkers Island Bridge Project 30 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. 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.