Tree nut farming · California

Burford Farming Company Inc.

Fresno, CA · ~82 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Burford Farming Company Inc. runs at 125% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Tree nut farming workplace, earning a grade D.

Burford Farming Company Inc.: 5.6 TCR = 125% of Tree nut farming BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Burford Farming Company Inc. safety composite

Burford Farming Company Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.3

2021→2024

Burford Farming Company Inc. injury rate improved

Burford Farming Company Inc.'s TCR fell 2.3 from 7.2 in 2021 to 4.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 7.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=7.2 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=5.9 · 2024=4.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111335 · Fresno, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 125% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #74/107
  • PHOTO Winters Farming, Inc.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~82 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Winters Farming, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Burford Farming Company Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Burford Farming Company Inc. averages 5.6 TCR (125% of the Tree nut farming BLS benchmark).

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

Burford Farming Company Inc. TCR series: 2021=7.2 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=5.9 · 2024=4.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Burford Farming Company Inc. falls in its industry

120 Tree nut farming establishments

Safer than 30% 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 #74 safest of 107 Tree nut farming employers in California.

Burford Farming Company Inc. (82 employees, TCR 5.6) 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 Burford Farming Company Inc.
Burford Farming Company Inc. (82 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Burford Farming Company Inc. has more employees than the Tree nut farming median and a higher 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 4.9 3.3 2 1 0
2023 5.9 5.9 5 0 0
2022 4.5 1.1 4 0 0
2021 7.2 1.0 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111335 · CA · Fresno

120 Tree nut farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 981 employers in Fresno, 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 Winters Farming, Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR BIG W RANCH INC 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thomas Farms, Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Agri-World Cooperative 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE West Coast Harvesting Inc. 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farm 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wight Vineyard Management, Inc. 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Growers Harvesting LLC 82 FTE
CITY-NEAR County of Fresno 7,553 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ag Force LLC 6,430 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Regional Medical Ctr 5,549 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Regional Medical Center 4,921 FTE
NAT-TCR Kilwin's Quality Confections 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bensenville 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Baptist Health Paducah 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Southside Regional Medical Center 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 092 - Lansing GM - Millett Hwy 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Christman Company - Detroit 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE TWE Nonwovens US Inc. 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hayden, ID 82 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.