Apple orchards · Washington

Borton Main Plant

Yakima, WA · ~67 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Borton Main Plant runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Apple orchards workplace, earning a grade C.

Borton Main Plant: 4.0 TCR = 89% of Apple orchards BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Borton Main Plant safety composite

Borton Main Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

−2.7

2021→2024

Borton Main Plant injury rate improved

Borton Main Plant's TCR fell 2.7 from 4.0 in 2021 to 1.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=4.0 · 2022=6.7 · 2024=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111331 · Yakima, WA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 89% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #6/51
  • PHOTO Nesbitt Fruit Farms
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nesbitt Fruit Farms (0.0 TCR gap)

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Borton Main Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Borton Main Plant averages 4.0 TCR (89% of the Apple orchards BLS benchmark).

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

Borton Main Plant TCR series: 2021=4 · 2022=6.7 · 2024=1.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Borton Main Plant falls in its industry

90 Apple orchards establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 51 Apple orchards employers in Washington.

Borton Main Plant (67 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 6.6 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Borton Main Plant
Borton Main Plant (67 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Borton Main Plant has more employees than the Apple orchards median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.6. 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 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2022 6.7 5.6 6 0 0
2021 4.0 4.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111331 · WA · Yakima

90 Apple orchards employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 192 employers in Yakima, 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 Nesbitt Fruit Farms 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR John B. Peters Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR B W Bishop & Sons Inc 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Al's Apples Inc 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Star Ranch, LLC 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 Yakima Valley Hospital WA 2,748 FTE
CITY-NEAR Borton Fruit 1,473 FTE
CITY-NEAR Yakima County 997 FTE
CITY-NEAR Borton Orchards 918 FTE
NAT-TCR 1014 - Wausau 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Dehydrator 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Benfield Electric 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR SPP Mechanical Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sunshine Canyon Landfill - Republic Services 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hunter Truck - Corporate Offices 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spectrum Underground, Inc. 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eleet Cryogenics Inc. 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, 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.