Pepper (e.g., bell, chili, green, hot, red, sweet) farming · California

Baloian Packing Co., Inc.

Fresno, CA · ~180 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Baloian Packing Co., Inc. runs at 129% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pepper (e.g., bell, chili, green, hot, red, sweet) farming workplace, earning a grade D.

Baloian Packing Co., Inc.: 5.8 TCR = 129% of Pepper (e.g., bell, chili, green, hot, red, sweet) farming BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Baloian Packing Co., Inc. safety composite

Baloian Packing Co., Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 46%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.9

2017→2024

Baloian Packing Co., Inc. injury rate improved

Baloian Packing Co., Inc.'s TCR fell 0.9 from 3.8 in 2017 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 12.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.8 · 2018=5.3 · 2019=6.6 · 2020=3.8 · 2021=12.7 · 2023=5.6 · 2024=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111219 · Fresno, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 129% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #87/175
  • PHOTO Marc Pura Ranch, LLC
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 55 inj
  • SIZE ~180 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Marc Pura Ranch, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Baloian Packing Co., Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Baloian Packing Co., Inc. averages 5.8 TCR (129% of the Pepper (e.g., bell, chili, green, hot, red, sweet) farming BLS benchmark).

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

Baloian Packing Co., Inc. TCR series: 2017=3.8 · 2018=5.3 · 2019=6.6 · 2020=3.8 · 2021=12.7 · 2023=5.6 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Baloian Packing Co., Inc. falls in its industry

331 Pepper (e.g., bell, chili, gre establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #87 safest of 175 Pepper (e.g., bell, chili, gre employers in California.

Baloian Packing Co., Inc. (180 employees, TCR 5.8) 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 Baloian Packing Co., Inc.
Baloian Packing Co., Inc. (180 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Baloian Packing Co., Inc. has more employees than the Pepper (e.g., bell, chili, green, hot, r 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 2.9 1.2 5 0 0
2023 5.6 1.6 7 0 0
2021 12.7 4.5 17 0 0
2020 3.8 1.5 5 0 0
2019 6.6 0.7 9 0 0
2018 5.3 3.0 7 0 0
2017 3.8 1.5 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · CA · Fresno

331 Pepper (e.g., bell, chili, green, hot, red, sweet) farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 981 employers in Fresno, 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 Marc Pura Ranch, LLC 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peri & Sons Farms, Inc 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gill Ranch 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morningstar Harvesting 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE AJ FARM LABOR CONTRACTING, INC OFFICE 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2905-29050002-4148 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fowler Packing East 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE Deacon Construction, LLC - CA 180 FTE
CITY-NEAR County of Fresno 7,553 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ag Force LLC 6,430 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Regional Medical Ctr 5,549 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Regional Medical Center 4,921 FTE
NAT-TCR Inter - Terre Haute 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Williamsport Pa 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR West Liberty Foods 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Eight O'Clock Coffee 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wycap - Casper Center 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ilmar - Marion 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mitcy - Traverse City Center 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lake Shore Cryotronics, Inc 180 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, 2021, 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.