Apple orchards · Connecticut

B W Bishop & Sons Inc

Guilford, CT · ~140 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

B W Bishop & Sons Inc runs at 93% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Apple orchards workplace, earning a grade C.

B W Bishop & Sons Inc: 4.2 TCR = 93% of Apple orchards BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

B W Bishop & Sons Inc safety composite

B W Bishop & Sons Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.32 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%).

B W Bishop & Sons Inc held a steady TCR band

B W Bishop & Sons Inc's TCR held near 0.2 from 3.5 in 2019 to 3.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=3.5 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=1.1 · 2022=9.5 · 2023=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111331 · Guilford, CT AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.2 · 93% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK P67
  • PHOTO Al's Apples Inc
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~140 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Al's Apples Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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B W Bishop & Sons Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows B W Bishop & Sons Inc averages 4.2 TCR (93% of the Apple orchards BLS benchmark).

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

B W Bishop & Sons Inc TCR series: 2019=3.5 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=1.1 · 2022=9.5 · 2023=3.3 · BLS 4.5

Where B W Bishop & Sons Inc falls in its industry

90 Apple orchards establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
B W Bishop & Sons Inc (140 employees, TCR 4.2) 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate B W Bishop & Sons Inc
B W Bishop & Sons Inc (140 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 6.6

B W Bishop & Sons Inc has more employees than the Apple orchards median and a lower 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
2023 3.3 3.3 2 1 0
2022 9.5 4.2 9 0 0
2021 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2020 3.4 3.4 3 0 0
2019 3.5 3.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111331 · CT · Guilford

90 Apple orchards employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 41 employers in Guilford, CT · 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 Al's Apples Inc 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR John B. Peters Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nesbitt Fruit Farms 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Borton Main Plant 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Paul Dinto Electrical Contractors, Inc. 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE Domino's SCC- Connecticut 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE Galasso Materials LLC. 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE Photronics Inc 140 FTE
CITY-NEAR VNACHC Guilford 331 FTE
CITY-NEAR Home Care Plus, Inc. - Guilford 292 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brook & Whittle, Ltd. - Guilford 207 FTE
CITY-NEAR Apple Rehab Guilford 124 FTE
NAT-TCR Gnb Kck LLC 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Rising River Inc 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR ISD# 834-Stonebridge Elementary 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR WhiteFab, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Setpoint Systems 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Horizons Baking Company- IN 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE Texas VSI/Clyde W Cosper TSVH 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hotel Services 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: 2023, 2022, 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.