Almond farming · California

Bob and Susan Vanella

Chico, CA · ~57 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bob and Susan Vanella runs at 93% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Almond farming workplace, earning a grade C.

Bob and Susan Vanella: 4.2 TCR = 93% of Almond farming BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bob and Susan Vanella safety composite

Bob and Susan Vanella scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 46%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

−2.9

2017→2021

Bob and Susan Vanella injury rate improved

Bob and Susan Vanella's TCR fell 2.9 from 4.5 in 2017 to 1.7 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.5 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=6.1 · 2021=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111335 · Chico, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.2 · 93% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #55/107
  • PHOTO Central Valley Ag Ma…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Central Valley Ag Management, LLC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bob and Susan Vanella in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bob and Susan Vanella averages 4.2 TCR (93% of the Almond farming BLS benchmark).

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

Bob and Susan Vanella TCR series: 2017=4.5 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=6.1 · 2021=1.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Bob and Susan Vanella falls in its industry

120 Almond farming establishments

Safer than 46% 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 #55 safest of 107 Almond farming employers in California.

Bob and Susan Vanella (57 employees, TCR 4.2) 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 Bob and Susan Vanella
Bob and Susan Vanella (57 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Bob and Susan Vanella has more 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
2021 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2020 6.1 4.9 4 1 0
2019 4.3 4.3 3 0 0
2017 4.5 1.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111335 · CA · Chico

120 Almond farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 189 employers in Chico, 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 Central Valley Ag Management, LLC. 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4R Farming, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valley Ventures, Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bays Ranch Inc 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bowles Farming Company 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blanc Vineyards, LLC 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE MI RANCHITO FARMING INC 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farmland Management Services 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-11 4,124 FTE
CITY-NEAR Enloe Medical Center Employees 3,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 72 2,394 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 521 2,370 FTE
NAT-TCR Kingsland Public Schools 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Hanover Depot 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR FedEx Supply Chain - HP Facility LaVergne, TN 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Swire Coca-Cola of Grand Junction 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE AC Hotel Raleigh North Hills 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Henning Companies, LLC 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central Builders all locations 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Team Concept 57 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, 2020, 2019, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.