Fruit sorting, grading, and packing · Virginia

Bowman Fruit Sales LLC

Timberville, VA · ~25 workers · 9 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

Bowman Fruit Sales LLC runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fruit sorting, grading, and packing workplace, earning a grade C.

Bowman Fruit Sales LLC: 4.0 TCR = 89% of Fruit sorting, grading, and packing BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bowman Fruit Sales LLC safety composite

Bowman Fruit Sales LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Bowman Fruit Sales LLC: 7.6 → 10.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 13.4 TCR · DART/TCR 2.53× in 2024

Bowman Fruit Sales LLC's TCR rose 2.6 from 7.6 in 2016 to 10.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 13.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 2.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115114 · Timberville, VA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 89% of ind

  • DART 10.2 DART
  • RANK #8/8
  • PHOTO Jimmie K Green
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jimmie K Green (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bowman Fruit Sales LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bowman Fruit Sales LLC averages 4.0 TCR (89% 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

Bowman Fruit Sales LLC TCR series: 2016=7.6 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=5 · 2022=0 · 2023=13.4 · 2024=10.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Bowman Fruit Sales LLC falls in its industry

666 Fruit sorting, grading, and pa establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 8 Fruit sorting, grading, and pa employers in Virginia.

Bowman Fruit Sales LLC (25 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 Bowman Fruit Sales LLC
Bowman Fruit Sales LLC (25 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Bowman Fruit Sales LLC has fewer 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 10.2 10.2 1 1 0
2023 13.4 8.9 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 5.0 5.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 7.6 7.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · VA · Timberville

666 Fruit sorting, grading, and packing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 16 employers in Timberville, VA · 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 Jimmie K Green 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR San Saba Pecan, LP 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pennington Seed - Seed Processing - Lebanon 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Williams 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bowman Orchards, LLc 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Circle W Farms II, LLC 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Manufacturing Plant 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE BREMO PWR STA 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Timberville Processing plant 515 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6952 286 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cooked - Timberville 244 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6952 233 FTE
NAT-TCR CBSI Forestville 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Barton Supply - Aurora 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Tree West 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Columbia River Knife & Tool 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Champion Window of Lexington 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE First Choice Vending Company 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bls - Ocean Springs Millwork 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE CR&R Incorporated Blythe 25 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.