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

Paragon Potato Farm

Bancroft, WI · ~140 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Paragon Potato Farm runs at 82% 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: 3.7 TCR = 82% of Sorting, grading, cleaning, and packing of fruits and vegetables BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Paragon Potato Farm safety composite

Paragon Potato Farm scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 45%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.9

2018→2024

Paragon Potato Farm injury rate improved

Paragon Potato Farm's TCR fell 5.9 from 7.7 in 2018 to 1.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=7.7 · 2022=2.8 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 82% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #6/16
  • PHOTO 2362/3714-Lubbock, T…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~140 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2362/3714-Lubbock, TX-R&D (Monsanto Co.) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Paragon Potato Farm in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Paragon Potato Farm averages 3.7 TCR (82% 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 TCR series: 2018=7.7 · 2022=2.8 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Paragon Potato Farm falls in its industry

666 Sorting, grading, cleaning, an establishments

Safer than 45% 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 #6 safest of 16 Sorting, grading, cleaning, an employers in Wisconsin.

Paragon Potato Farm (140 employees, TCR 3.7) 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
Paragon Potato Farm (140 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Paragon Potato Farm 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
2024 1.7 1.7 2 0 0
2023 2.6 0.9 3 0 0
2022 2.8 0.9 3 0 0
2018 7.7 4.6 13 2 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 2362/3714-Lubbock, TX-R&D (Monsanto Co.) 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR GoldRiver Orchards, Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2564-Marshall, MO (Monsanto Co.) 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR FRONTERA PRODUCE, LTD 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bonduelle USA 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Northern Corporation - Chippewa Falls Fulfillment 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE CastlePierce Corporation 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE N.E.W. Plastics Corp 140 FTE
CITY-NEAR Paragon Potato Farm - Bancroft 158 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wysocki Produce Farm - Paramount Ag 66 FTE
NAT-TCR Central Transport - 198 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Century Linen- Taylor Street 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 10598 West Broad Street 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Faribault Grow Out 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brighton Post Acute 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE Escanaba Mi - 3256 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE Freudenberg Filtration Technologies - Best Air (Belvidere) 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE Autism Learning Partners Fresno 140 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, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.