Apple orchards · Washington

Columbia Fruit Packers

Wenatchere, WA · ~451 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Columbia Fruit Packers runs at 232% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Apple orchards workplace, earning a grade F.

Columbia Fruit Packers: 10.4 TCR = 232% of Apple orchards BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Columbia Fruit Packers safety composite

Columbia Fruit Packers scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

−1.7

2022→2023

Columbia Fruit Packers injury rate improved

Columbia Fruit Packers's TCR fell 1.7 from 11.3 in 2022 to 9.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 11.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=11.3 · 2023=9.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111331 · Wenatchere, WA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.4 · 232% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #41/51
  • PHOTO King Fuji Ranch Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 54 inj
  • SIZE ~451 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: King Fuji Ranch Inc (0.1 TCR gap)

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Columbia Fruit Packers in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Columbia Fruit Packers averages 10.4 TCR (232% of the Apple orchards BLS benchmark).

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

Columbia Fruit Packers TCR series: 2022=11.3 · 2023=9.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Columbia Fruit Packers falls in its industry

90 Apple orchards establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #41 safest of 51 Apple orchards employers in Washington.

Columbia Fruit Packers (451 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 6.6 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Columbia Fruit Packers
Columbia Fruit Packers (451 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Columbia Fruit Packers has more employees than the Apple orchards median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.6. 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
2023 9.6 5.8 29 1 0
2022 11.3 6.4 25 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111331 · WA · Wenatchere

90 Apple orchards employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 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 King Fuji Ranch Inc 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chiawana Orchards, LLC 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR A&K Orchards Inc. 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR MWR RIVERSIDE ORCHARDS LLC 11.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Panasonic Avionics 451 FTE
STATE-SIZE Snelson Companies, Inc. 450 FTE
STATE-SIZE PACCAR TECHNICAL CENTER 450 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0006 - SOUTHCENTER WA WHSE 452 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbia Orchard Mgt 613 FTE
NAT-TCR G-FAM, Corp dba Paul Davis Restoration of Boston South & Rhode Island 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Kitchen 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Carol Corp dba Hillaero Modification Center 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Arcadia 10.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay 451 FTE
NAT-SIZE Equitrans Midstream Southpointe 451 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elcor Operating Company, LLC 451 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mahle Filter Systems North America, Inc. 451 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: 2023, 2022. 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.