Fruit stock (e.g., plants, seedlings, trees) growing · Pennsylvania

Boyer Nurseries & Orchards, Inc.

Biglerville, PA · ~39 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Boyer Nurseries & Orchards, Inc. runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Fruit stock (e.g., plants, seedlings, trees) growing workplace, earning a grade A.

Boyer Nurseries & Orchards, Inc.: 1.4 TCR = 32% of Fruit stock (e.g., plants, seedlings, trees) growing BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Boyer Nurseries & Orchards, Inc. safety composite

Boyer Nurseries & Orchards, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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%).

Boyer Nurseries & Orchards, Inc. held a steady TCR band

Boyer Nurseries & Orchards, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.2 from 2.5 in 2017 to 2.7 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.5 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=2.0 · 2021=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Biglerville, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 32% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #1/6
  • PHOTO Cass Mill
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cass Mill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Boyer Nurseries & Orchards, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Boyer Nurseries & Orchards, Inc. averages 1.4 TCR (32% of the Fruit stock (e.g., plants, seedlings, trees) growing BLS benchmark).

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

Boyer Nurseries & Orchards, Inc. TCR series: 2017=2.5 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=2 · 2021=2.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Boyer Nurseries & Orchards, Inc. falls in its industry

386 Fruit stock (e.g., plants, see establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 6 Fruit stock (e.g., plants, see employers in Pennsylvania.

Boyer Nurseries & Orchards, Inc. (39 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Boyer Nurseries & Orchards, Inc.
Boyer Nurseries & Orchards, Inc. (39 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Boyer Nurseries & Orchards, Inc. has fewer employees than the Fruit stock (e.g., plants, seedlings, tr median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2020 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 2.5 2.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · PA · Biglerville

386 Fruit stock (e.g., plants, seedlings, trees) growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 11 employers in Biglerville, PA · 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 Cass Mill 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR A & P Farms 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mountain Shadow Nursery LLC 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Millcreek Gardens LLC 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sylvan PA 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monterey Mushrooms, LLC.- Temple, PA 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Creek Nurseries, Inc. (Shipping) 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Strad USA Inc. 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR International Paper Biglerville Container 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Biglerville 168 FTE
CITY-NEAR Knouse Foods - Biglerville 151 FTE
CITY-NEAR Knouse Foods Biglerville 145 FTE
NAT-TCR Lc Jergens Painting Co Inc 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR T556 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 40 Hercules Drive--Polhemus Headquarters 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Box-Board Products - 8313 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE D.D. Kerns Construction Company, Inc. 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Poet's Walk Round Rock 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE BHE - Lawrence (KS009) 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE BHGAR - Ozark - Cataberry Run (AR012) 39 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, 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.