Hop farming · Washington

Black Star Ranch, LLC

Moxee, WA · ~67 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Black Star Ranch, LLC runs at 225% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hop farming workplace, earning a grade F.

Black Star Ranch, LLC: 10.1 TCR = 225% of Hop farming BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Black Star Ranch, LLC safety composite

Black Star Ranch, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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 10.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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%).

Black Star Ranch, LLC held a steady TCR band

Black Star Ranch, LLC's TCR held near 0.2 from 8.1 in 2019 to 7.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 16.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=8.1 · 2020=16.6 · 2021=5.8 · 2022=9.5 · 2023=12.7 · 2024=7.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111998 · Moxee, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.1 · 225% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #15/16
  • PHOTO Yakima Golding Farm
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Yakima Golding Farm (0.3 TCR gap)

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Black Star Ranch, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Black Star Ranch, LLC averages 10.1 TCR (225% of the Hop farming BLS benchmark).

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

Black Star Ranch, LLC TCR series: 2019=8.1 · 2020=16.6 · 2021=5.8 · 2022=9.5 · 2023=12.7 · 2024=7.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Black Star Ranch, LLC falls in its industry

128 Hop farming establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 16 Hop farming employers in Washington.

Black Star Ranch, LLC (67 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 64 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Black Star Ranch, LLC
Black Star Ranch, LLC (67 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 64 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Black Star Ranch, LLC has more employees than the Hop farming median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 7.9 2.0 4 0 0
2023 12.7 9.5 8 0 0
2022 9.5 9.5 7 0 0
2021 5.8 4.4 3 1 0
2020 16.6 8.3 11 1 0
2019 8.1 4.6 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111998 · WA · Moxee

128 Hop farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 11 employers in Moxee, WA · 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 Yakima Golding Farm 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR AgMart Produce, Inc. JENNINGS NFL 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Olyphant, PA 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pineland Farms Inc. 9.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Borton Main Plant 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Longview Area 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE MJM Farms LP 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Avangrid Renewables - Vancouver Office 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR Olympic Fruit 893 FTE
CITY-NEAR Moxee Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware 467 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ace Hardware Retail Support Center (Moxee) 309 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alexandria Moulding - NSS 274 FTE
NAT-TCR Marlin Mechanical Corporation 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 8017 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Albany NY FXFE-ALB 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR National Management Resources Quincy University 10.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Liberty Ponce 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Topside Manor Inc 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schenker, Inc. (Clarksville) 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Murrietta CA 67 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.