Orchards- Citrus and deciduous fruits · California

Cottonwood Farms

Visalia, CA · ~29 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cottonwood Farms runs at 160% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Orchards- Citrus and deciduous fruits workplace, earning a grade D.

Cottonwood Farms: 7.2 TCR = 160% of Orchards- Citrus and deciduous fruits BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cottonwood Farms safety composite

Cottonwood Farms scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

−3.8

2018→2019

Cottonwood Farms injury rate improved

Cottonwood Farms's TCR fell 3.8 from 9.1 in 2018 to 5.3 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 9.1 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=9.1 · 2019=5.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111320 · Visalia, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.2 · 160% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/8
  • PHOTO Bagdasarian Services…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bagdasarian Services, LLC (0.8 TCR gap)

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Cottonwood Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cottonwood Farms averages 7.2 TCR (160% of the Orchards- Citrus and deciduous fruits BLS benchmark).

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

Cottonwood Farms TCR series: 2018=9.1 · 2019=5.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Cottonwood Farms falls in its industry

13 Orchards- Citrus and deciduous establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 8 Orchards- Citrus and deciduous employers in California.

Cottonwood Farms (29 employees, TCR 7.2) among 6 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 3.8 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 7 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Scott Citrus Management, Inc.Mulholland CitrusCGC Agri-Management Inc.Bagdasarian Services, LLCAGS FARM LABOR CORPORATIONIMG Citrus Happy FoodCottonwood Farms
Cottonwood Farms (29 employees, TCR 7.2) among 6 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Cottonwood Farms has fewer employees than the Orchards- Citrus and deciduous fruits median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2019 5.3 0.0 2 0 0
2018 9.1 4.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111320 · CA · Visalia

13 Orchards- Citrus and deciduous fruits employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 349 employers in Visalia, 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 Bagdasarian Services, LLC 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fowler Packing Company Arvin 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Broome Management, LLC 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Illume Ag HR, Inc. 9.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE C1976 Fresno 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Emerald Hills Golfland 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE 25 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE 075 ABC Supply Co., Inc 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kaweah Delta Health Care District 4,961 FTE
CITY-NEAR Paragon Personnel 2,129 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 194 1,485 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 473 1,479 FTE
NAT-TCR Nevada Manufacturing 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 4054-Abs 0016 3932 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0020 1788 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR TMP Technologies, Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Courtyard Farmington 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Springhill Suites Salt Lake City 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Des Moines Hampton Inn 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Florida Care Properties, Inc. Starkville Location 29 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: 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.