Sorting, grading, cleaning, and packing of fruits and vegetables · Wisconsin

Paragon Potato Farm - Bancroft

Bancroft, WI · ~158 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

Paragon Potato Farm - Bancroft runs at 99% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Sorting, grading, cleaning, and packing of fruits and vegetables workplace, earning a grade C.

Paragon Potato Farm - Bancroft: 4.5 TCR = 99% of Sorting, grading, cleaning, and packing of fruits and vegetables BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Paragon Potato Farm - Bancroft safety composite

Paragon Potato Farm - Bancroft scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Paragon Potato Farm - Bancroft: 2.9 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.63× in 2021

Paragon Potato Farm - Bancroft's TCR rose 5.1 from 2.9 in 2019 to 8.0 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115114 · Bancroft, WI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.5 · 99% of ind

  • DART 7.3 DART
  • RANK #9/16
  • PHOTO Villa Park Strathmore
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~158 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Villa Park Strathmore (0.0 TCR gap)

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Paragon Potato Farm - Bancroft in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Paragon Potato Farm - Bancroft averages 4.5 TCR (99% of the Sorting, grading, cleaning, and packing of fruits and vegetables BLS benchmark).

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

Paragon Potato Farm - Bancroft TCR series: 2019=2.9 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=8 · BLS 4.5

Where Paragon Potato Farm - Bancroft falls in its industry

666 Sorting, grading, cleaning, an establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 16 Sorting, grading, cleaning, an employers in Wisconsin.

Paragon Potato Farm - Bancroft (158 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Paragon Potato Farm - Bancroft
Paragon Potato Farm - Bancroft (158 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Paragon Potato Farm - Bancroft has more employees than the Sorting, grading, cleaning, and packing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2021 8.0 7.3 3 8 0
2020 2.5 1.3 4 0 0
2019 2.9 2.3 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · WI · Bancroft

666 Sorting, grading, cleaning, and packing of fruits and vegetables employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 3 employers in Bancroft, 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 Villa Park Strathmore 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farmers International, Inc 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SVC BERRY 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sakuma Brothers Processing, Inc. 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Evco Plastics - MED 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wisconsin Plastics 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE FALL RIVER FOUNDRY 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steele Solutions Inc 158 FTE
CITY-NEAR Paragon Potato Farm 140 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wysocki Produce Farm - Paramount Ag 66 FTE
NAT-TCR TrueNorth Steel-Fargo 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR ERI 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ohio Alpha EMC 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Nichols Pistachio 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Quality Homemakers 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE Calverton 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kliklok LLC 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blue Ridge Healthcare Brookview House 158 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.