Almond farming · California

Braden Farms

Hughson, CA · ~24 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Braden Farms runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Almond farming workplace, earning a grade B.

Braden Farms: 3.4 TCR = 75% of Almond farming BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Braden Farms safety composite

Braden Farms scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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).

D

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

Braden Farms: 0.0 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 11.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.77× in 2024

Braden Farms's TCR rose 6.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 6.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 11.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111335 · Hughson, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.4 · 75% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #41/107
  • PHOTO Coburn Ranch
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Coburn Ranch (0.0 TCR gap)

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Braden Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Braden Farms averages 3.4 TCR (75% of the Almond farming BLS benchmark).

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

Braden Farms TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=11.3 · 2021=4.6 · 2022=5.2 · 2023=0 · 2024=6 · BLS 4.5

Where Braden Farms falls in its industry

120 Almond farming establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #41 safest of 107 Almond farming employers in California.

Braden Farms (24 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Braden Farms
Braden Farms (24 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Braden Farms has fewer employees than the Almond farming median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 6.0 6.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 5.2 5.2 1 0 0
2021 4.6 4.6 1 0 0
2020 11.3 7.5 3 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

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111335 · CA · Hughson

120 Almond farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 29 employers in Hughson, 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 Coburn Ranch 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chase Farms - New Mexico 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Holland Farms III 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blackburn Farming Company 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Agro-Jal Farming Enterprises 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE MTD Farms 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marc Pura Ranch, LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Costa Farms 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Duarte Nursery Inc. 367 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3118_6025 303 FTE
CITY-NEAR Office/Processing 273 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grower Direct Nut Company 226 FTE
NAT-TCR Selfhelp Community Services Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Stevens Point 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hill Country Concrete and Masonry Supply, Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Winsupply Dayton RDC 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Crown Point Yard 315 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spirit Industries LLC 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE East Arkansas Area Agency on Aging- Cross 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Henderson Masonry LLC 24 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. 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.