Almond farming · California

Ag-Wise Enterprises, Inc

Bakersfield, CA · ~98 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ag-Wise Enterprises, Inc runs at 64% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Almond farming workplace, earning a grade B.

Ag-Wise Enterprises, Inc: 2.9 TCR = 64% of Almond farming BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ag-Wise Enterprises, Inc safety composite

Ag-Wise Enterprises, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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%).

Ag-Wise Enterprises, Inc held a steady TCR band

Ag-Wise Enterprises, Inc's TCR held near 0.0 from 4.0 in 2017 to 4.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.0 · 2018=2.9 · 2019=1.5 · 2020=2.1 · 2022=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111335 · Bakersfield, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.9 · 64% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #37/107
  • PHOTO Sherwood Equipment Inc
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~98 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sherwood Equipment Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ag-Wise Enterprises, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ag-Wise Enterprises, Inc averages 2.9 TCR (64% of the Almond farming BLS benchmark).

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

Ag-Wise Enterprises, Inc TCR series: 2017=4 · 2018=2.9 · 2019=1.5 · 2020=2.1 · 2022=4 · BLS 4.5

Where Ag-Wise Enterprises, Inc falls in its industry

120 Almond farming establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #37 safest of 107 Almond farming employers in California.

Ag-Wise Enterprises, Inc (98 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ag-Wise Enterprises, Inc
Ag-Wise Enterprises, Inc (98 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Ag-Wise Enterprises, Inc has more employees than the Almond farming median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2022 4.0 1.6 5 0 0
2020 2.1 2.1 3 0 0
2019 1.5 0.8 2 0 0
2018 2.9 1.4 4 0 0
2017 4.0 0.8 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111335 · CA · Bakersfield

120 Almond farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 818 employers in Bakersfield, CA · 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 Sherwood Equipment Inc 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Belding Farms 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Just Farms LP 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR L & R Mussi Farms 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Coastal GVIC Ranches 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chapala Berry Farms 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bains Orchards Inc. 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE GLOBAL MUSHROOM LLC 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA Bakersfield 4,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-04 4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - BFL1 4,113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Esparza Enterprises, Inc 3,267 FTE
NAT-TCR 30046 - Capstone Awg Southaven 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Kanes Furniture - Sarasota Store 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Nwi Wichita LLC 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0715 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE ISD 317 King Elementary School 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE CareGivers America LLC Harrisburg 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Messer Construction - Dayton, OH 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Penn Hills 98 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: 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.