Almond farming · California

Big W Ranch Inc

Orland, CA · ~27 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big W Ranch Inc runs at 125% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Almond farming workplace, earning a grade D.

Big W Ranch Inc: 5.6 TCR = 125% of Almond farming BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big W Ranch Inc safety composite

Big W Ranch Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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).

D

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

−6.5

2017→2024

Big W Ranch Inc injury rate improved

Big W Ranch Inc's TCR fell 6.5 from 10.6 in 2017 to 4.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 13.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=10.6 · 2018=13.1 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=7.5 · 2022=4.1 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=4.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111335 · Orland, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 125% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #73/107
  • PHOTO Burford Farming Comp…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Burford Farming Company Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big W Ranch Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big W Ranch Inc averages 5.6 TCR (125% of the Almond farming BLS benchmark).

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

Big W Ranch Inc TCR series: 2017=10.6 · 2018=13.1 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=7.5 · 2022=4.1 · 2023=0 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Big W Ranch Inc falls in its industry

120 Almond farming establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #73 safest of 107 Almond farming employers in California.

Big W Ranch Inc (27 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Big W Ranch Inc
Big W Ranch Inc (27 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Big W Ranch Inc has fewer employees than the Almond farming median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 4.1 4.1 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 4.1 0.0 0 1 0
2021 7.5 2.5 1 2 0
2020 2.6 0.0 1 0 0
2019 2.7 0.0 1 0 0
2018 13.1 5.3 5 0 0
2017 10.6 10.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111335 · CA · Orland

120 Almond farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 24 employers in Orland, 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 Burford Farming Company Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Winters Farming, Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thomas Farms, Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Agri-World Cooperative 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE HQ 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Medeiros Farms Vineyards 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE SAND RANCH 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE San Bernabe Vineyards 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR JC Farm Services, Inc. 265 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - WTH1 163 FTE
CITY-NEAR Capay Farms 142 FTE
CITY-NEAR Olivarez Honey Bees 114 FTE
NAT-TCR Belleview Price Cutter 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR L. Gordon Iron & Metal Company - Salisbury Road Facility 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 313NCN 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Rouses Market #48 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stallard Technologies Inc. 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Treadwell Corporation 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Discher Architectural Millwork 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waterproofing Specialists, Inc. 27 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, 2018, 2017. 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.