Fruit sorting, grading, and packing · California

Fowler Packing Company

Fresno, CA · ~1,048 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fowler Packing Company runs at 110% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fruit sorting, grading, and packing workplace, earning a grade C.

Fowler Packing Company: 5.0 TCR = 110% of Fruit sorting, grading, and packing BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fowler Packing Company safety composite

Fowler Packing Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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

−1.0

2017→2022

Fowler Packing Company injury rate improved

Fowler Packing Company's TCR fell 1.0 from 5.2 in 2017 to 4.3 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.2 · 2018=6.2 · 2021=4.1 · 2022=4.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115114 · Fresno, CA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 5.0 · 110% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #105/236
  • PHOTO Blue Sky Management …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 137 inj
  • SIZE ~1,048 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Blue Sky Management LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fowler Packing Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fowler Packing Company averages 5.0 TCR (110% of the Fruit sorting, grading, and packing BLS benchmark).

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

Fowler Packing Company TCR series: 2017=5.2 · 2018=6.2 · 2021=4.1 · 2022=4.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Fowler Packing Company falls in its industry

666 Fruit sorting, grading, and pa establishments

Safer than 34% 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 #105 safest of 236 Fruit sorting, grading, and pa employers in California.

Fowler Packing Company (1,048 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 Fowler Packing Company
Fowler Packing Company (1,048 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Fowler Packing Company has more employees than the Fruit sorting, grading, and packing 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
2022 4.3 1.9 35 0 0
2021 4.1 2.5 33 0 0
2018 6.2 4.3 33 0 0
2017 5.2 2.9 36 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · CA · Fresno

666 Fruit sorting, grading, and packing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 981 employers in Fresno, 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 Blue Sky Management LLC 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR MBS Genetics, LLC 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Monarch Nut Company 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Westside Hulling Association 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE 7033 1,048 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 512 1,049 FTE
STATE-SIZE Premium Packing, Inc. 1,050 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jurupa Valley Terminal 1,045 FTE
CITY-NEAR County of Fresno 7,553 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ag Force LLC 6,430 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Regional Medical Ctr 5,549 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Regional Medical Center 4,921 FTE
NAT-TCR 4598-Rtc Laredo 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 3495-10D8106 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 3495-11DG016 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 001Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Collaboration Center 1,048 FTE
NAT-SIZE Otter Products Salazar 1,048 FTE
NAT-SIZE ASHN 1,048 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Lyon Community Schools - 63240 1,048 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: 2022, 2021, 2018, 2017. 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.