Cucumber farming (except under cover), field, bedding plant and seed production · Hawaii

Akea Farms, Inc.

Hoolehua, HI · ~22 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Akea Farms, Inc. runs at 158% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cucumber farming (except under cover), field, bedding plant and seed production workplace, earning a grade D.

Akea Farms, Inc.: 7.1 TCR = 158% of Cucumber farming (except under cover), field, bedding plant and seed production BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Akea Farms, Inc. safety composite

Akea Farms, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Akea Farms, Inc.: 4.5 → 14.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 14.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2024

Akea Farms, Inc.'s TCR rose 9.8 from 4.5 in 2018 to 14.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111219 · Hoolehua, HI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.1 · 158% of ind

  • DART 7.2 DART
  • RANK #8/11
  • PHOTO TVH
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TVH (0.0 TCR gap)

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Akea Farms, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Akea Farms, Inc. averages 7.1 TCR (158% of the Cucumber farming (except under cover), field, bedding plant and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

Akea Farms, Inc. TCR series: 2018=4.5 · 2019=0 · 2020=9.3 · 2021=9.2 · 2022=8.4 · 2023=4.2 · 2024=14.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Akea Farms, Inc. falls in its industry

331 Cucumber farming (except under establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Hawaii alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 11 Cucumber farming (except under employers in Hawaii.

Akea Farms, Inc. (22 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Akea Farms, Inc.
Akea Farms, Inc. (22 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Akea Farms, Inc. has fewer employees than the Cucumber farming (except under cover), f median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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 14.3 7.2 4 0 0
2023 4.2 4.2 1 0 0
2022 8.4 8.4 2 0 0
2021 9.2 9.2 2 0 0
2020 9.3 9.3 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 4.5 4.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · HI · Hoolehua

331 Cucumber farming (except under cover), field, bedding plant and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,022 rated employers in Hawaii with headcount on file · 3 employers in Hoolehua, HI · 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 TVH 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR COLORADO PRODUCTION FARMING 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jason Farm 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR George Chiala Farms - Hollister 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Aloun Kauai Farming, LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE SJ Farms, Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Larry Jefts Farms, LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unlimited Contract Services - Robertsdale, AL 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dow AgroSciences - Molokai R&D Field Station 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hoolehua Station 15 FTE
NAT-TCR Mount Sinai Brooklyn Hospital 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Pepsi Cola Ogdensburg Bottlers 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Corn Belt Energy Corporation 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Community Health Center of Snohomish County - Arlington 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE AMS of Texas, LLC 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE HCR Inc. dba Halo Hospice 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Border Plains Equipment - Glasgow 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE SCIP - Dillon Terminal 22 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.