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
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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.

Balcom and Moe - farm: 15.0 TCR = 332% of Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Balcom and Moe - farm safety composite

Balcom and Moe - farm scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 20.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

Balcom and Moe - farm: 9.4 → 20.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 20.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.37× in 2023

Balcom and Moe - farm's TCR rose 11.0 from 9.4 in 2022 to 20.5 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111211 · Pasco, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.0 · 332% of ind

  • DART 20.5 DART
  • RANK #17/18
  • PHOTO J&W Walker Farms, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: J&W Walker Farms, Inc. (0.7 TCR gap)

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Balcom and Moe - farm in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Balcom and Moe - farm averages 15.0 TCR (332% of the Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS benchmark).

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

Balcom and Moe - farm TCR series: 2022=9.4 · 2023=20.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Balcom and Moe - farm falls in its industry

153 Potato farming, field and seed establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

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.

Balcom and Moe - farm (25 employees, TCR 15.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Balcom and Moe - farm
Balcom and Moe - farm (25 employees, TCR 15.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Balcom and Moe - farm has fewer employees than the Potato farming, field and seed potato pr median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 20.5 20.5 6 0 0
2022 9.4 9.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111211 · WA · Pasco

153 Potato farming, field and seed potato production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 134 employers in Pasco, 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 J&W Walker Farms, Inc. 15.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fazio Ag LLC 13.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dawson Farms 13.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eagle Ag Operations, LLC 12.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE CountyLine Dairy 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE DRAPER VALLEY RANCH 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rock Point Oyster Co 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hansen Logging, LLC 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pasco Plant 1,387 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pasco Processing LLC 719 FTE
CITY-NEAR PASCO WA 680 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lourdes Health 604 FTE
NAT-TCR Clarendale St. Peters Operations, LLC 15.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0566 15.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Renaissance Park Multi-Care Center 15.0 TCR
NAT-TCR HG285 15.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Courtyard El Paso, TX 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE feed milling and grain handling 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prairieland Outpatient Diagnostic Center dBA Digestive Disease Endoscopy Center 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shenandoah Senior Living 25 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.