Sweet potato farming, field and seed potato production · Idaho

Mickelsen Farms

Rigby, ID · ~84 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Mickelsen Farms runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Sweet potato farming, field and seed potato production workplace, earning a grade C.

Mickelsen Farms: 4.4 TCR = 98% of Sweet potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mickelsen Farms safety composite

Mickelsen Farms scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 5%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 5% 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

−2.8

2017→2024

Mickelsen Farms injury rate improved

Mickelsen Farms's TCR fell 2.8 from 6.9 in 2017 to 4.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=6.9 · 2018=6.2 · 2019=0.0 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111211 · Rigby, ID AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.4 · 98% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #5/13
  • PHOTO Sea View Farm Linton
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sea View Farm Linton (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mickelsen Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mickelsen Farms averages 4.4 TCR (98% of the Sweet 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

Mickelsen Farms TCR series: 2017=6.9 · 2018=6.2 · 2019=0 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Mickelsen Farms falls in its industry

153 Sweet potato farming, field an establishments

Safer than 60% 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 #5 safest of 13 Sweet potato farming, field an employers in Idaho.

Mickelsen Farms (84 employees, TCR 4.4) 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 Mickelsen Farms
Mickelsen Farms (84 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Mickelsen Farms has more employees than the Sweet potato farming, field and seed pot 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 4.2 4.2 1 0 0
2023 4.7 4.7 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 6.2 1.6 4 0 0
2017 6.9 1.7 4 0 1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111211 · ID · Rigby

153 Sweet 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 Rigby, 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 Sea View Farm Linton 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR BETTERAVIA FARMS 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Black Gold Farms - NCC 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Salinas Transplant Company 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Northwest Interiors LLC 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Barclay Mechanical Services, Inc. 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE PERIMETER SECURITY GROUP, LLC 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fabri-kal ID 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rigby Produce, Inc. 296 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rigby 01 191 FTE
CITY-NEAR Broulim's Rigby 188 FTE
CITY-NEAR Potato Products of Idaho 152 FTE
NAT-TCR Washington State Dept of Natural Resources - Southeast Region 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Fremont AHQ 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR TYS 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR First Student Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Expeditors International of Washington, Inc. 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE GEHC : Cleveland OH, HCS 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE 399 - Clinton 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE 039k - Sacramento Ca Rntl 84 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.