Balers, farm-type (e.g., cotton, hay, straw), manufacturing · California

Border Valley Trading, LTD.

Brawley, CA · ~87 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Border Valley Trading, LTD. runs at 301% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Balers, farm-type (e.g., cotton, hay, straw), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Border Valley Trading, LTD.: 9.9 TCR = 301% of Balers, farm-type (e.g., cotton, hay, straw), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Border Valley Trading, LTD. safety composite

Border Valley Trading, LTD. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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).

F

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

−1.3

2018→2021

Border Valley Trading, LTD. injury rate improved

Border Valley Trading, LTD.'s TCR fell 1.3 from 9.5 in 2018 to 8.2 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 11.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=9.5 · 2019=11.3 · 2020=10.7 · 2021=8.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333111 · Brawley, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.9 · 301% of ind

  • DART 8.2 DART
  • RANK #35/45
  • PHOTO Hydro Engineering
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hydro Engineering (0.0 TCR gap)

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Border Valley Trading, LTD. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Border Valley Trading, LTD. averages 9.9 TCR (301% of the Balers, farm-type (e.g., cotton, hay, straw), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Border Valley Trading, LTD. TCR series: 2018=9.5 · 2019=11.3 · 2020=10.7 · 2021=8.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Border Valley Trading, LTD. falls in its industry

433 Balers, farm-type (e.g., cotto establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 45 Balers, farm-type (e.g., cotto employers in California.

Border Valley Trading, LTD. (87 employees, TCR 9.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Border Valley Trading, LTD.
Border Valley Trading, LTD. (87 employees, TCR 9.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Border Valley Trading, LTD. has more employees than the Balers, farm-type (e.g., cotton, hay, st 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
2021 8.2 8.2 6 1 0
2020 10.7 10.7 7 5 0
2019 11.3 11.3 7 2 0
2018 9.5 9.5 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333111 · CA · Brawley

433 Balers, farm-type (e.g., cotton, hay, straw), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 47 employers in Brawley, 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 Hydro Engineering 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nelson Mfg. Co., Inc. 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Parma Company 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lummus Corp. / Lubbock 10.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Martinelli Vineyard Management, Inc 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE farming 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE A. SAMBADO & SON INC 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Agromillora California 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 355 1,170 FTE
CITY-NEAR One World Beef Packers LLC 901 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pioneers Memorial Healthcare District 866 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sonia Corina, Inc. 835 FTE
NAT-TCR Corner Market #9028 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 1388 - Plainfield Il Whse 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Council Bluffs Goodwill Retail Store 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR New Star Inc 9.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Continental Resources - Chickasha, OK 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Inserv Inc 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Speed Shore Corporation 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bridge at Ooltewah 87 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, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.