Peach farming · California

Bruce Friesen Farms, Inc.

Kingsburg, CA · ~19 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bruce Friesen Farms, Inc. runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Peach farming workplace, earning a grade A.

Bruce Friesen Farms, Inc.: 1.8 TCR = 39% of Peach farming BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bruce Friesen Farms, Inc. safety composite

Bruce Friesen Farms, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Bruce Friesen Farms, Inc.: 0.0 → 5.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 6.6 TCR · DART/TCR 3.27× in 2024

Bruce Friesen Farms, Inc.'s TCR rose 5.8 from 0.0 in 2017 to 5.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 3.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111339 · Kingsburg, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.8 · 39% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #5/37
  • PHOTO Kuhn Orchards, LLC
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kuhn Orchards, LLC (0.2 TCR gap)

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Bruce Friesen Farms, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bruce Friesen Farms, Inc. averages 1.8 TCR (39% of the Peach farming BLS benchmark).

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

Bruce Friesen Farms, Inc. TCR series: 2017=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=6.6 · 2023=0 · 2024=5.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Bruce Friesen Farms, Inc. falls in its industry

90 Peach farming establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 37 Peach farming employers in California.

Bruce Friesen Farms, Inc. (19 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 6.2 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Bruce Friesen Farms, Inc.
Bruce Friesen Farms, Inc. (19 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Bruce Friesen Farms, Inc. has fewer employees than the Peach farming median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. 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 5.8 5.8 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 6.6 6.6 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111339 · CA · Kingsburg

90 Peach farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 62 employers in Kingsburg, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Kuhn Orchards, LLC 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mike Jensen Farms, LP 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Singer Farms LLC 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SOM 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE A. OSEGUERA CO., INC. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE TEIXEIRA FARMS INC 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Golden R, Inc. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE PEDRAZZI FARMS 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR LEOPOLDO'S FARM SERVICE, INC. 2,541 FTE
CITY-NEAR OFR INC 1,020 FTE
CITY-NEAR EDITH VILLALBASO 747 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kingsburg Fruit Packing Inc. 524 FTE
NAT-TCR EMS 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR East Coast Plumbing & HVAC, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR T E Davis Construction Company 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 001 - Education Center 1.8 TCR

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, 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.