Apple orchards · Washington

Columbia Valley Fruit, LLC

Union Gap, WA · ~158 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Columbia Valley Fruit, LLC runs at 204% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Apple orchards workplace, earning a grade F.

Columbia Valley Fruit, LLC: 9.2 TCR = 204% of Apple orchards BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Columbia Valley Fruit, LLC safety composite

Columbia Valley Fruit, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

Columbia Valley Fruit, LLC: 8.1 → 10.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 10.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.12× in 2021

Columbia Valley Fruit, LLC's TCR rose 2.2 from 8.1 in 2020 to 10.3 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111331 · Union Gap, WA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.2 · 204% of ind

  • DART 10.3 DART
  • RANK #35/51
  • PHOTO Champlain Orchards
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~158 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Champlain Orchards (0.0 TCR gap)

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Columbia Valley Fruit, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Columbia Valley Fruit, LLC averages 9.2 TCR (204% of the Apple orchards BLS benchmark).

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

Columbia Valley Fruit, LLC TCR series: 2020=8.1 · 2021=10.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Columbia Valley Fruit, LLC falls in its industry

90 Apple orchards establishments

Safer than 23% 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 #35 safest of 51 Apple orchards employers in Washington.

Columbia Valley Fruit, LLC (158 employees, TCR 9.2) 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Columbia Valley Fruit, LLC
Columbia Valley Fruit, LLC (158 employees, TCR 9.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Columbia Valley Fruit, LLC 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
2021 10.3 10.3 15 0 0
2020 8.1 8.1 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111331 · WA · Union Gap

90 Apple orchards employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 36 employers in Union Gap, WA · 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 Champlain Orchards 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baker Produce - Goosehill I 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR R & L Orchard Co. 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR CUSTOM ORCHARDS 9.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE IMCO General Construction 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE Division 1 - Seattle 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE Darigold Rainier 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cyrus O' Leary's 158 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1013 - UNION GAP WA WHSE 330 FTE
CITY-NEAR CRO 162 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prime Window Systems 152 FTE
CITY-NEAR WAYAK - YAKIMA 147 FTE
NAT-TCR Hartford - Johnson Memorial Hospital 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Choctaw General Hospital 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Country Store Gillette 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Nynan - Nanuet 9.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2039-ROME 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE GFL Environmental USA Inc. - Pontiac, MI 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chandler Line 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mosinee Facility 158 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: 2021, 2020. 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.