Potato farming, field and seed potato production · Washington
Balcom and Moe - farm
Pasco, WA · ~25 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 15.0
- Avg TCR
- 4.5
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Balcom and Moe - farm runs at 332% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Potato farming, field and seed potato production workplace, earning a grade F.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 15.0
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 4.5
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 9
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Balcom and Moe - farm's OSHA Total Case Rate of 15.0 to the Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS benchmark of 4.5 (332% of benchmark) across 2 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
Balcom and Moe - farm's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 4.5 industry benchmark.
Where Balcom and Moe - farm falls in its industry
168 Potato farming, field and seed establishmentsSafer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.
Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 18 Potato farming, field and seed employers in Washington.
Trend analysis for Balcom and Moe - farm
Between 2022 and 2023, Balcom and Moe - farm's Total Case Rate worsened from 9.4 to 20.5 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 117% increase across 1 year of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2022, at a TCR of 9.4, while 2023 saw the highest rate, at 20.5, a spread of 11.0 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 2 reporting years, Balcom and Moe - farm recorded 9 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 2-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 9 injuries shown on this page for Balcom and Moe - farm are sourced from its own 2 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 111211 - Potato farming, field and seed potato production.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2023)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
6 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 58,594 hours worked = 20.48 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Balcom and Moe - farm (this establishment) | 14.96 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 2-year avg |
| Vegetable and melon farming, potato dominant crop, field and seed production industry avg | 4.50 | BLS IIF, NAICS 111211 |
| Washington state avg (all industries) | 6.20 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Balcom and Moe - farm to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2023: 6 reportable incidents · 6 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 3 reportable incidents · 3 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 20.5 | 20.5 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 9.4 | 9.4 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Balcom and Moe - farm's reported OSHA injury record versus its Potato farming, field and seed potato production peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 332% of the Potato farming, field and seed potato production benchmark, Balcom and Moe - farm reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Potato farming, field and seed potato production sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.