Fruit and tree nut combination farming · Oregon

Bear Creek Orchards

Medford, OR · ~145 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Bear Creek Orchards runs at 279% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fruit and tree nut combination farming workplace, earning a grade F.

Bear Creek Orchards: 12.5 TCR = 279% of Fruit and tree nut combination farming BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bear Creek Orchards safety composite

Bear Creek Orchards scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 21% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 3%), 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

11/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 3% 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

−3.7

2020→2024

Bear Creek Orchards injury rate improved

Bear Creek Orchards's TCR fell 3.7 from 13.0 in 2020 to 9.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 51.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=13.0 · 2021=10.4 · 2022=51.1 · 2023=17.4 · 2024=9.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111336 · Medford, OR ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 12.5 · 279% of ind

  • DART 6.4 DART
  • RANK P8
  • PHOTO 166 Gary Dr., Brockp…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 58 inj
  • SIZE ~145 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 166 Gary Dr., Brockport, NY 14420 (0.2 TCR gap)

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Bear Creek Orchards in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bear Creek Orchards averages 12.5 TCR (279% of the Fruit and tree nut combination farming BLS benchmark).

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

Bear Creek Orchards TCR series: 2020=13 · 2021=10.4 · 2022=51.1 · 2023=17.4 · 2024=9.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Bear Creek Orchards falls in its industry

65 Fruit and tree nut combination establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Bear Creek Orchards (145 employees, TCR 12.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Bear Creek Orchards
Bear Creek Orchards (145 employees, TCR 12.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Bear Creek Orchards has more employees than the Fruit and tree nut combination farming median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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 9.3 6.4 12 1 0
2023 17.4 10.7 9 4 0
2022 51.1 23.9 12 3 1
2021 10.4 7.6 9 2 0
2020 13.0 9.8 16 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111336 · OR · Medford

65 Fruit and tree nut combination farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 250 employers in Medford, OR · 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 166 Gary Dr., Brockport, NY 14420 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Warren Morgan Orchards 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brocchini Farms Inc. 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tos Farms Inc., Tos Farming Co., Tos Land Co., Inc. 11.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE General Sheet Metal Works Inc 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE Weston 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE GLV Enterprises, dba Renewal by Andersen 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE Precision Materials and Logistics, LLC 145 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harry and David Operations Inc 2,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR OR343 PROVIDENCE MEDFORD MEDICAL CENTER HR 1,136 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2252-00000590 1,130 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lithia Motors Support Services 677 FTE
NAT-TCR Outside The Box Logistics LLC 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 2536 - Lower Nazareth 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Gold's Gym DC Metro Bailey's Crossroads 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Foothill Presbyterian Hospital 12.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE PA Peterson at the Citadel 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tarrytown Hall Care Center 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tfo Tech Co., Ltd. 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Foam Product Technologies 145 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. 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.