Almond hulling and shelling · California

Central California Almond Growers Association (Kerman)

Kerman, CA · ~71 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Central California Almond Growers Association (Kerman) runs at 237% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Almond hulling and shelling workplace, earning a grade F.

Central California Almond Growers Association (Kerman): 10.7 TCR = 237% of Almond hulling and shelling BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Central California Almond Growers Association (Kerman) safety composite

Central California Almond Growers Association (Kerman) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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).

F

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

−5.4

2023→2024

Central California Almond Growers Association (Kerman) injury rate improved

Central California Almond Growers Association (Kerman)'s TCR fell 5.4 from 13.4 in 2023 to 8.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 13.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=13.4 · 2024=8.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115114 · Kerman, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.7 · 237% of ind

  • DART 7.0 DART
  • RANK #209/236
  • PHOTO GloriAnn Farms Brawley
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GloriAnn Farms Brawley (0.0 TCR gap)

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Central California Almond Growers Association (Kerman) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Central California Almond Growers Association (Kerman) averages 10.7 TCR (237% of the Almond hulling and shelling BLS benchmark).

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

Central California Almond Growers Association (Kerman) TCR series: 2023=13.4 · 2024=8 · BLS 4.5

Where Central California Almond Growers Association (Kerman) falls in its industry

666 Almond hulling and shelling establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #209 safest of 236 Almond hulling and shelling employers in California.

Central California Almond Growers Association (Kerman) (71 employees, TCR 10.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Central California Almond Growers Association (Kerman)
Central California Almond Growers Association (Kerman) (71 employees, TCR 10.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Central California Almond Growers Association (Kerman) has fewer employees than the Almond hulling and shelling median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 8.0 7.0 8 0 0
2023 13.4 8.9 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · CA · Kerman

666 Almond hulling and shelling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 46 employers in Kerman, 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 GloriAnn Farms Brawley 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fresh Solution Farms 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Odell 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Underwood Fruit & Warehouse 10.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE M Pineda Farming Co 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE AgSource Services, LLC 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schafer Ranch, Inc 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE R & J Dondero Inc 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR E.E. Hall Inc. 1,826 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hall Management Group, Inc 1,596 FTE
CITY-NEAR 918 S Del Norte, Kerman Ca 93630 1,109 FTE
CITY-NEAR West 824 FTE
NAT-TCR Welding Technologies, Inc. 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Harmony Village at Jackson 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Tucker Industries Inc. 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Progressive Converting Beaver Dam 10.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Colfax Health and Rehabilitation Center 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Altamira-US 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Champion Window of Denver 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tamarack Bloomington 71 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.