Fruit sorting, grading, and packing · Washington

Blue Star Growers

Cashmere, WA · ~184 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blue Star Growers runs at 142% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fruit sorting, grading, and packing workplace, earning a grade D.

Blue Star Growers: 6.4 TCR = 142% of Fruit sorting, grading, and packing BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blue Star Growers safety composite

Blue Star Growers scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

−2.3

2021→2024

Blue Star Growers injury rate improved

Blue Star Growers's TCR fell 2.3 from 5.7 in 2021 to 3.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=5.7 · 2022=9.1 · 2023=7.3 · 2024=3.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115114 · Cashmere, WA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 142% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #17/37
  • PHOTO Wish Farms Cooling a…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~184 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wish Farms Cooling and Packing, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Blue Star Growers in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blue Star Growers averages 6.4 TCR (142% of the Fruit sorting, grading, and packing BLS benchmark).

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

Blue Star Growers TCR series: 2021=5.7 · 2022=9.1 · 2023=7.3 · 2024=3.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Blue Star Growers falls in its industry

666 Fruit sorting, grading, and pa establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 37 Fruit sorting, grading, and pa employers in Washington.

Blue Star Growers (184 employees, TCR 6.4) 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 Blue Star Growers
Blue Star Growers (184 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Blue Star Growers has more employees than the Fruit sorting, grading, and packing 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 3.4 2.0 4 1 0
2023 7.3 5.0 13 0 0
2022 9.1 4.2 13 0 0
2021 5.7 3.2 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · WA · Cashmere

666 Fruit sorting, grading, and packing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 7 employers in Cashmere, 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 Wish Farms Cooling and Packing, LLC 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR JJ Georgia Warehouse 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SEED DYNAMICS, INC. 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR DECCO US Post-Harvest Inc. - Wenatchee 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE South Bend 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6017-CORP LOC - USA UNITED STATES - SEATTLE 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unit # 1256 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0637 - West Seattle 184 FTE
CITY-NEAR CRUNCH PAK, LLC 493 FTE
CITY-NEAR FOOD SERVICE SLICING, LLC 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cashmere Post Acute 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cashmere Care Center 66 FTE
NAT-TCR South Shore Millwork, Inc. 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Paramount Senior Living at Polaris 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bronder Technical Services 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Thomas Health Systems, INC 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Eugene EWP 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE Freudenberg Medical 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE PAM Rehab of Beaumont 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE Partners In Progress, Inc 184 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. 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.