Alfalfa hay farming · Arizona

Butler Valley Ranch

Bouse, AZ · ~16 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Butler Valley Ranch runs at 19% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Alfalfa hay farming workplace, earning a grade A.

Butler Valley Ranch: 0.9 TCR = 19% of Alfalfa hay farming BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Butler Valley Ranch safety composite

Butler Valley Ranch scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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 0.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Butler Valley Ranch: 0.0 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.5 TCR · DART/TCR 4× in 2020

Butler Valley Ranch's TCR rose 3.5 from 0.0 in 2017 to 3.5 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111940 · Bouse, AZ AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 19% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #1/8
  • PHOTO Fondomonte CA - Blyt…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~16 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fondomonte CA - Blythe Farm (0.2 TCR gap)

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Butler Valley Ranch in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Butler Valley Ranch averages 0.9 TCR (19% of the Alfalfa hay farming BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Butler Valley Ranch TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=3.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Butler Valley Ranch falls in its industry

31 Alfalfa hay farming establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 8 Alfalfa hay farming employers in Arizona.

Butler Valley Ranch (16 employees, TCR 0.9) among 14 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.2 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 15 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 050100150 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Butler Valley Ranch
Butler Valley Ranch (16 employees, TCR 0.9) among 14 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Butler Valley Ranch has fewer employees than the Alfalfa hay farming median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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
2020 3.5 3.5 1 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

111940 · AZ · Bouse

31 Alfalfa hay farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Fondomonte CA - Blythe Farm 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grass Roots Farming LLC. 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR J. R. Griffin Farms, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Al Dahra ACX, Inc. - Ellensburg 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sleep Inn at North Scottsdale 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE Little Rituals 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE OLAM Cotton Valencia Gin 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE Motor Pool - Vehicle Maintenance 16 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lone Cactus Egg Farm 153 FTE
NAT-TCR Bernell Hydraulics, Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Lci - 091 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Elite Manufacturing Technologies 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hampton Inn - FT. Lauderdale 0.9 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: 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.