Nursery with tree production (except for reforestation) · Oregon

Blue Heron Farm LLC

Salem, OR · ~262 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blue Heron Farm LLC runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Nursery with tree production (except for reforestation) workplace, earning a grade C.

Blue Heron Farm LLC: 3.7 TCR = 82% of Nursery with tree production (except for reforestation) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blue Heron Farm LLC safety composite

Blue Heron Farm LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Blue Heron Farm LLC: 3.4 → 4.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.51× in 2023

Blue Heron Farm LLC's TCR rose 0.8 from 3.4 in 2018 to 4.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Salem, OR AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 82% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #15/46
  • PHOTO RANCHO TISSUE TECHNO…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~262 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RANCHO TISSUE TECHNOLOGIES INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Blue Heron Farm LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blue Heron Farm LLC averages 3.7 TCR (82% of the Nursery with tree production (except for reforestation) BLS benchmark).

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

Blue Heron Farm LLC TCR series: 2018=3.4 · 2021=3.5 · 2023=4.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Blue Heron Farm LLC falls in its industry

386 Nursery with tree production ( establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 46 Nursery with tree production ( employers in Oregon.

Blue Heron Farm LLC (262 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Blue Heron Farm LLC
Blue Heron Farm LLC (262 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Blue Heron Farm LLC has more employees than the Nursery with tree production (except for median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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
2023 4.2 1.9 8 3 0
2021 3.5 3.5 9 0 0
2018 3.4 2.3 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · OR · Salem

386 Nursery with tree production (except for reforestation) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 471 employers in Salem, 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 RANCHO TISSUE TECHNOLOGIES INC 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR GardenScape Nursery INC 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR SS BAILEY NURSERIES INC 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brentano's Tree Farm LLC 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Renewal - Redmond 262 FTE
STATE-SIZE Income Property Management 262 FTE
STATE-SIZE Public Service Building 262 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hoffman Construction Company of Oregon 261 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oregon State Hospital-Salem Campus 2,036 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : PDX7 1,559 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chemeketa Community College 1,551 FTE
CITY-NEAR Human Service Building ODHS 1,402 FTE
NAT-TCR ACCO Building Services Idaho 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Aurora Flight Sciences Mississippi 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Us Autoforce West Allis 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Savannah 2 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mastic Home Exteriors, Inc. 262 FTE
NAT-SIZE Completion Houston Product Center 262 FTE
NAT-SIZE Angelo Iafrate Construction Company 262 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cedar Rapids Location 262 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: 2023, 2021, 2018. 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.