Apple orchards · Virginia

Bowman Orchards, LLc

Timberville, VA · ~25 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bowman Orchards, LLc runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Apple orchards workplace, earning a grade D.

Bowman Orchards, LLc: 8.0 TCR = 178% of Apple orchards BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bowman Orchards, LLc safety composite

Bowman Orchards, LLc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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 Orchards, LLc: 7.9 → 11.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.46× in 2024

Bowman Orchards, LLc's TCR rose 3.8 from 7.9 in 2016 to 11.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111331 · Timberville, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.0 · 178% of ind

  • DART 11.7 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO ABOVE THE DIRT LLC
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ABOVE THE DIRT LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bowman Orchards, LLc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bowman Orchards, LLc averages 8.0 TCR (178% of the Apple orchards BLS benchmark).

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

Bowman Orchards, LLc TCR series: 2016=7.9 · 2017=10.8 · 2018=6 · 2022=0 · 2023=11.6 · 2024=11.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Bowman Orchards, LLc falls in its industry

90 Apple orchards establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Apple orchards employers in Virginia.

Bowman Orchards, LLc (25 employees, TCR 8.0) 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 Bowman Orchards, LLc
Bowman Orchards, LLc (25 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Bowman Orchards, LLc has fewer employees than the Apple orchards median and a higher 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 11.7 11.7 1 1 0
2023 11.6 11.6 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 6.0 6.0 1 0 0
2017 10.8 10.8 3 0 0
2016 7.9 4.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111331 · VA · Timberville

90 Apple orchards 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 ABOVE THE DIRT LLC 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR DG ORCHARDS LLC 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oasis Farm's Inc. 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Taggares Fruit Company 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Circle W Farms II, LLC 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Manufacturing Plant 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bowman Fruit Sales LLC 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 Gerrity's Supermarkets, Bethlehem 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Nassal Fabrication Services 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Summit Calf Ranch LLC 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Williams Distributing Company - Howell 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bls - Ocean Springs Millwork 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE GarCon, LLC 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE First Choice Vending Company 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Champion Window of Lexington 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, 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.