Noncitrus fruit farming · New York

Bittner Singer Orchards

Appleton, NY · ~24 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bittner Singer Orchards runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Noncitrus fruit farming workplace, earning a grade D.

Bittner Singer Orchards: 5.7 TCR = 126% of Noncitrus fruit farming BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bittner Singer Orchards safety composite

Bittner Singer Orchards scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−12.9

2017→2021

Bittner Singer Orchards injury rate improved

Bittner Singer Orchards's TCR fell 12.9 from 12.9 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 12.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=12.9 · 2019=4.1 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111339 · Appleton, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 126% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P54
  • PHOTO MS Mango Farm, LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MS Mango Farm, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bittner Singer Orchards in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bittner Singer Orchards averages 5.7 TCR (126% of the Noncitrus fruit farming BLS benchmark).

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

Bittner Singer Orchards TCR series: 2017=12.9 · 2019=4.1 · 2021=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Bittner Singer Orchards falls in its industry

90 Noncitrus fruit farming establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Bittner Singer Orchards (24 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 6.2 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Bittner Singer Orchards
Bittner Singer Orchards (24 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Bittner Singer Orchards has fewer employees than the Noncitrus fruit farming median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 4.1 4.1 1 0 0
2017 12.9 12.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111339 · NY · Appleton

90 Noncitrus fruit farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 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 MS Mango Farm, LLC 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Symms Fruit Ranch, Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alta Vista Farms, LP. 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dahle Orchards LLC 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wegmans Organic Farm 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lawnel Farms 2 LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dairy 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Walker Farms, LLC 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Singer Farms LLC 23 FTE
NAT-TCR Manufacturing - Spartanburg 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Herman Miller Midwest Distribution Center 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Alyan Pump 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Drury Inn & Suites - Detroit Troy 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Edward W. Daniel, LLC 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main Branch 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE FourPoints by Sheraton 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE AN3 Logisitcs LLC 24 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: 2021, 2019, 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.