Potato farming, field and seed potato production · Idaho

Southwind Farms

Heyburn, ID · ~40 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southwind Farms runs at 119% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Potato farming, field and seed potato production workplace, earning a grade C.

Southwind Farms: 5.4 TCR = 119% of Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southwind Farms safety composite

Southwind Farms scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

Southwind Farms: 0.0 → 8.4 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 9.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.79× in 2020

Southwind Farms's TCR rose 8.4 from 0.0 in 2016 to 8.4 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 9.3 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111211 · Heyburn, ID ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.4 · 119% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #8/13
  • PHOTO AgriNorthwest
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AgriNorthwest (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southwind Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southwind Farms averages 5.4 TCR (119% 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

Southwind Farms TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=4.3 · 2018=4.8 · 2019=9.3 · 2020=8.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Southwind Farms falls in its industry

153 Potato farming, field and seed establishments

Safer than 48% 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 #8 safest of 13 Potato farming, field and seed employers in Idaho.

Southwind Farms (40 employees, TCR 5.4) 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 Southwind Farms
Southwind Farms (40 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Southwind Farms has fewer employees than the Potato farming, field and seed potato pr median and a higher 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
2020 8.4 4.2 4 0 0
2019 9.3 7.0 4 0 0
2018 4.8 2.4 2 0 0
2017 4.3 2.1 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111211 · ID · Heyburn

153 Potato farming, field and seed potato production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,774 rated employers in Idaho with headcount on file · 8 employers in Heyburn, 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 AgriNorthwest 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bud of CA Broccoli AZ 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CSS Farms - Minden 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CSS Farms - Winnemucca 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fousts, Inc 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sletten Construction of Idaho 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE HC Company, Inc. 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE CM Company, Inc. 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gem State Processing 181 FTE
CITY-NEAR Heglar Creek Electrcial 116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Heyburn Facility 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR IDHEY - HEYBURN 42 FTE
NAT-TCR Westmor Industries - Kansas 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Senior Living, Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Iga #49 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR TWB Antioch 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Andersons Walton Plant Nutrient 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bodycote Thermal Processing Inc. - Grand Rapids 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alamosa Service Center 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE SouthWest Service Center (in TX) 40 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.