Walnut hulling and shelling · California

Empire Nut Company, LLC

Colusa, CA · ~35 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Empire Nut Company, LLC runs at 206% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Walnut hulling and shelling workplace, earning a grade F.

Empire Nut Company, LLC: 9.3 TCR = 206% of Walnut hulling and shelling BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Empire Nut Company, LLC safety composite

Empire Nut Company, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

−18.5

2023→2024

Empire Nut Company, LLC injury rate improved

Empire Nut Company, LLC's TCR fell 18.5 from 18.5 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 18.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=18.5 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115114 · Colusa, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.3 · 206% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #193/236
  • PHOTO Simonian Fruit Company
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Simonian Fruit Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Empire Nut Company, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Empire Nut Company, LLC averages 9.3 TCR (206% of the Walnut hulling and shelling BLS benchmark).

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

Empire Nut Company, LLC TCR series: 2023=18.5 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Empire Nut Company, LLC falls in its industry

666 Walnut hulling and shelling establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #193 safest of 236 Walnut hulling and shelling employers in California.

Empire Nut Company, LLC (35 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Empire Nut Company, LLC
Empire Nut Company, LLC (35 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Empire Nut Company, LLC has fewer employees than the Walnut hulling and shelling median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 18.5 6.2 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · CA · Colusa

666 Walnut hulling and shelling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 15 employers in Colusa, 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 Simonian Fruit Company 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR CSS Farms - Agri Pack 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northern Merced Hulling Assn Inc 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Twin Oaks 9.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE CONSTRUCTION FABRICATION/CARPENTRY/PAINTING/ELECTRIC/PIPE 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meek Ranches LLC 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dresick Farms, Inc. - Farm 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wolfsen Inc 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 41 2,161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Premier Mushrooms 257 FTE
CITY-NEAR Colusa Indian Community Council 207 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riviana Foods, Inc. 61 FTE
NAT-TCR Coho Distributing LLC - Canby 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Abeka Book, Inc. 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Dura-Cast 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Livonia Mi - 3308 9.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE GCM Contracting Solutions, Inc. 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carrier Commercial Services (Indianapolis) 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rontex America LLC 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nothing Bundt Cakes - Jackson-Flowood 35 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.