Nut hulling and shelling · California

Berberian Nut Company

Chico, CA · ~50 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Berberian Nut Company runs at 154% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Nut hulling and shelling workplace, earning a grade D.

Berberian Nut Company: 7.0 TCR = 154% of Nut hulling and shelling BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Berberian Nut Company safety composite

Berberian Nut Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.9

2019→2024

Berberian Nut Company injury rate improved

Berberian Nut Company's TCR fell 5.9 from 8.4 in 2019 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 22.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=8.4 · 2020=22.7 · 2021=5.8 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115114 · Chico, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.0 · 154% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #154/236
  • PHOTO Bloomington Plant
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bloomington Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Berberian Nut Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Berberian Nut Company averages 7.0 TCR (154% of the Nut hulling and shelling BLS benchmark).

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

Berberian Nut Company TCR series: 2019=8.4 · 2020=22.7 · 2021=5.8 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Berberian Nut Company falls in its industry

666 Nut hulling and shelling establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #154 safest of 236 Nut hulling and shelling employers in California.

Berberian Nut Company (50 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Berberian Nut Company
Berberian Nut Company (50 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Berberian Nut Company has fewer employees than the Nut hulling and shelling median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2021 5.8 3.9 2 1 0
2020 22.7 22.7 7 7 0
2019 8.4 8.4 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · CA · Chico

666 Nut hulling and shelling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 189 employers in Chico, 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 Bloomington Plant 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rice Fruit Company 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CRESCENT FRUIT & VEGETABLE, LLC 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Uni-Kool Salinas 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jack Bros., Inc. 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE M Three Ranches, LLC 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Penterman Farming Company 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trefethen Farming, LLC 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-11 4,124 FTE
CITY-NEAR Enloe Medical Center Employees 3,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 72 2,394 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 521 2,370 FTE
NAT-TCR Armaly LLC 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Phrg Nj 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR New Haven CT FXFE-NHC 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Stericycle - Cheshire,CT 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE AHB Tool & Machinery LLC 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kingsley Arms, Inc. 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Grand Marais 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE McAllister Towing & Transportation Co., Inc 50 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, 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.