Almond farming · California

Chowchilla Ranches

Name: Chowchilla Ranches Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Chowchilla, CA · ~26 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 4.7
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Chowchilla Ranches runs at 105% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Almond farming workplace, earning a grade C.

Chowchilla Ranches: 4.7 TCR = 105% of Almond farming BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chowchilla Ranches safety composite

Chowchilla Ranches scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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).

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 4.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers
DART rate: F 4.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

Chowchilla Ranches: 2.9 → 9.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 9.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.01× in 2022

Chowchilla Ranches's TCR rose 6.6 from 2.9 in 2018 to 9.5 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 4.7 · 105% of ind

DART 4.7 DART
RANK #60/107
PHOTO Schafer Ranch, Inc
BOOK 5y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Schafer Ranch, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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4.7

What this shows Chowchilla Ranches averages 4.7 TCR (105% of the Almond farming BLS benchmark).

Chowchilla Ranches TCR series: 2018=2.9 · 2019=3.3 · 2020=0 · 2021=7.9 · 2022=9.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Chowchilla Ranches falls in its industry

120 Almond farming establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #60 safest of 107 Almond farming employers in California.

Chowchilla Ranches (26 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Chowchilla Ranches has fewer employees than the Almond 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
2022	9.5	4.7	2
2021	7.9	7.9	2
2020	0.0	0.0	0
2019	3.3	3.3	1
2018	2.9	2.9	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111335 · CA · Chowchilla

120 Almond farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 36 employers in Chowchilla, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Schafer Ranch, Inc	MADERA, CA	4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Lester Neufeld & Son	WASCO, CA	4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Stackhouse Brothers	HICKMAN, CA	4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Holland Farms III	FRESNO, CA	4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	HAULING & TRAILER SHOP	ARVIN	26 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Seasholtz Co., LLC	FRESNO	26 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Redwood Valley Vineyards	REDWOOD VALLEY	26 FTE
STATE-SIZE	North Central Coast Vineyards	SOLEDAD	26 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Valley State Prision -- Inmates	Chowchilla	1,438 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Pacific Orchard Development Inc	Chowchilla	679 FTE
CITY-NEAR	AgriLand Farming Co. Inc.	Chowchilla	275 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Guerrero Labor Contractor	Chowchilla	238 FTE
NAT-TCR	Reading Alloys	Robesonia, PA	4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Bernadine	Syracuse, NY	4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	USNR Woodland	Woodland, WA	4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Eagle Transport Corporation - Chattanooga	Chattanooga, TN	4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Villas at St James	Breese, IL	26 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Brinkmann Pumps, Inc.	Wixom, MI	26 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Store 2019	Loxahatchee, FL	26 FTE
NAT-SIZE	J & A Glass and Mirror, Inc.	Rogers, MN	26 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.