Apple orchards · Washington

Above the Dirt LLC

Quincy, WA · ~406 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Above the Dirt LLC runs at 179% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Apple orchards workplace, earning a grade D.

Above the Dirt LLC: 8.1 TCR = 179% of Apple orchards BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Above the Dirt LLC safety composite

Above the Dirt LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

−5.7

2019→2021

Above the Dirt LLC injury rate improved

Above the Dirt LLC's TCR fell 5.7 from 8.7 in 2019 to 3.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 12.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=8.7 · 2020=12.5 · 2021=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111331 · Quincy, WA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.1 · 179% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #29/51
  • PHOTO Bowman Orchards, LLc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 68 inj
  • SIZE ~406 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bowman Orchards, LLc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Above the Dirt LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Above the Dirt LLC averages 8.1 TCR (179% of the Apple orchards BLS benchmark).

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

Above the Dirt LLC TCR series: 2019=8.7 · 2020=12.5 · 2021=3 · BLS 4.5

Where Above the Dirt LLC falls in its industry

90 Apple orchards establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 51 Apple orchards employers in Washington.

Above the Dirt LLC (406 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 6.6 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Above the Dirt LLC
Above the Dirt LLC (406 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Above the Dirt LLC has more employees than the Apple orchards median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.6. 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 3.0 2.8 12 0 0
2020 12.5 10.6 37 3 0
2019 8.7 8.7 19 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111331 · WA · Quincy

90 Apple orchards employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 41 employers in Quincy, WA · 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 Bowman Orchards, LLc 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR DG ORCHARDS LLC 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oasis Farm's Inc. 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Assink 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Harbor Wholesale (LDC) 406 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2007 406 FTE
STATE-SIZE RICHLAND, WA 405 FTE
STATE-SIZE PACCAR Inc - Corporate 407 FTE
CITY-NEAR PNW Veg Co., dba Quincy Foods 439 FTE
CITY-NEAR QUINCY WA 411 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAS Quincy 331 FTE
CITY-NEAR Custom Apple Packers Quincy 295 FTE
NAT-TCR Napa Grocery Outlet 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR PCC Print Shop, Inc. 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital-Newburgh 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 1372 - East Lyme Ct Whse 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wegmans Bel Air 053 406 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clean Harbors El Dorado 406 FTE
NAT-SIZE K052-M001 406 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bell - Plant 2 406 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.