Apple orchards · Washington

Empey Orchards, Inc.

Mesa, WA · ~32 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Empey Orchards, Inc. runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Apple orchards workplace, earning a grade B.

Empey Orchards, Inc.: 3.2 TCR = 72% of Apple orchards BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Empey Orchards, Inc. safety composite

Empey Orchards, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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%).

Empey Orchards, Inc. held a steady TCR band

Empey Orchards, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.3 from 4.3 in 2019 to 4.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.3 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=4.3 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=4.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111331 · Mesa, WA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.2 · 72% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/51
  • PHOTO Crist Bros. Orchards…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Crist Bros. Orchards, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Empey Orchards, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Empey Orchards, Inc. averages 3.2 TCR (72% of the Apple orchards BLS benchmark).

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

Empey Orchards, Inc. TCR series: 2019=4.3 · 2020=0 · 2021=4.3 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Empey Orchards, Inc. falls in its industry

90 Apple orchards establishments

Safer than 73% 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 #4 safest of 51 Apple orchards employers in Washington.

Empey Orchards, Inc. (32 employees, TCR 3.2) 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 Empey Orchards, Inc.
Empey Orchards, Inc. (32 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Empey Orchards, Inc. 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 4.1 0.0 1 0 0
2023 3.4 3.4 1 0 0
2021 4.3 4.3 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 4.3 2.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111331 · WA · Mesa

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 Crist Bros. Orchards, Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ORCHARDS 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Beak & Skiff Apple Farms, Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ferguson's Morningside Orchard LLC 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fryslan Ranches LLC 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE PARKLAND LIGHT & WATER 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Avista Clarkston 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kennewick District Office 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR SGS Retail - Mesa 25 FTE
NAT-TCR Current, LLC 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Fairway Injection Molds, Inc 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Henkel Corporation-Memphis 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Colorado Springs 10277 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chico 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jordan Oaks 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Champion Glass, LLC. 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE SupplyOne Pittsburgh 32 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, 2021, 2020, 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.