Apple orchards · Pennsylvania

Dawson's Orchards

Enon Valley, PA · ~22 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dawson's Orchards runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Apple orchards workplace, earning a grade B.

Dawson's Orchards: 2.8 TCR = 62% of Apple orchards BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dawson's Orchards safety composite

Dawson's Orchards scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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).

C

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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%).

Dawson's Orchards held a steady TCR band

Dawson's Orchards's TCR held near 0.0 from 4.5 in 2019 to 4.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.5 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111331 · Enon Valley, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.8 · 62% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #2/7
  • PHOTO Giroux Orchards, LLC
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Giroux Orchards, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dawson's Orchards in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dawson's Orchards averages 2.8 TCR (62% of the Apple orchards BLS benchmark).

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

Dawson's Orchards TCR series: 2019=4.5 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Dawson's Orchards falls in its industry

90 Apple orchards establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 7 Apple orchards employers in Pennsylvania.

Dawson's Orchards (22 employees, TCR 2.8) 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 Dawson's Orchards
Dawson's Orchards (22 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Dawson's Orchards has fewer employees than the Apple orchards median and a lower 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
2024 4.5 4.5 1 0 0
2023 4.8 4.8 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 4.5 4.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111331 · PA · Enon Valley

90 Apple orchards employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 4 employers in Enon Valley, PA · 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 Giroux Orchards, LLC 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ridgeview Orchards 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seamans Orchard LC 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peters Orchards, Inc 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kuhn Orchards, LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Giorgi Mushroom Farm 3 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Hope 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pine Hill 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR NVR Building Products (PGH) 239 FTE
CITY-NEAR Darlington 189 FTE
CITY-NEAR PGH 185 FTE
NAT-TCR St Joseph KS FXFE-SJM 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Goodland KS FXFE-GLD 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Tropitone 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern Paving Shop 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Landscapes USA - Jacksonville 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Villas of Holly Brook Chatham 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Comfort Systems USA Southeast. Thomasville DIV 10 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rapid City SD FXFE-RAP 22 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, 2022, 2021, 2019. 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.