Citrus groves (except orange) · California

Fowler Packing Company Arvin

Arvin, CA · ~22 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fowler Packing Company Arvin runs at 123% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Citrus groves (except orange) workplace, earning a grade D.

Fowler Packing Company Arvin: 5.5 TCR = 123% of Citrus groves (except orange) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fowler Packing Company Arvin safety composite

Fowler Packing Company Arvin scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Fowler Packing Company Arvin: 0.0 → 11.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 11.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2018

Fowler Packing Company Arvin's TCR rose 11.1 from 0.0 in 2017 to 11.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 123% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/8
  • PHOTO Broome Management, LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Broome Management, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fowler Packing Company Arvin in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fowler Packing Company Arvin averages 5.5 TCR (123% of the Citrus groves (except orange) BLS benchmark).

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

Fowler Packing Company Arvin TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=11.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Fowler Packing Company Arvin falls in its industry

13 Citrus groves (except orange) establishments

Safer than 23% 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 #5 safest of 8 Citrus groves (except orange) employers in California.

Fowler Packing Company Arvin (22 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 FoodFowler Packing Company Arvin
Fowler Packing Company Arvin (22 employees, TCR 5.5) among 6 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Fowler Packing Company Arvin has fewer employees than the Citrus groves (except orange) 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
2018 11.1 0.0 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111320 · CA · Arvin

13 Citrus groves (except orange) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 41 employers in Arvin, 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 Broome Management, LLC 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bagdasarian Services, LLC 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Triple M Fruit Co,. Inc 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cottonwood Farms 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mountain Valley Child and Family Services, Inc. - Gerber 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6957-STS 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glen Park at Ojai 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE CSY Kleimer Bldg 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sycamore Labor Inc. 5,865 FTE
CITY-NEAR Malaga Facility 1,391 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tasteful Selections, LLC 798 FTE
CITY-NEAR MALAGA CUT/SNACK 570 FTE
NAT-TCR Phoenix (Azenx) 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Christiana (Denew) 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Foster Ave (Nyfos) 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 150 - Towanda 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE # 1 Cochran Volkswagen of South Hills 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Medical Transport Company of Tucson 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE D1 - Wilmington Bedding/Dinning 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gundlach Champion Inc. Office 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: 2018, 2017. 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.