Fruit sorting, grading, and packing · California

Fowler Packing East

Parlier, CA · ~180 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fowler Packing East runs at 105% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fruit sorting, grading, and packing workplace, earning a grade C.

Fowler Packing East: 4.7 TCR = 105% of Fruit sorting, grading, and packing BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fowler Packing East safety composite

Fowler Packing East scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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%).

Fowler Packing East held a steady TCR band

Fowler Packing East's TCR held near 0.3 from 4.9 in 2023 to 4.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=4.9 · 2024=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115114 · Parlier, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.7 · 105% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #98/236
  • PHOTO Villa Park Riverside
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~180 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Villa Park Riverside (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fowler Packing East in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fowler Packing East averages 4.7 TCR (105% 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 East TCR series: 2023=4.9 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Fowler Packing East falls in its industry

666 Fruit sorting, grading, and pa establishments

Safer than 36% 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 #98 safest of 236 Fruit sorting, grading, and pa employers in California.

Fowler Packing East (180 employees, TCR 4.7) 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 East
Fowler Packing East (180 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Fowler Packing East 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
2024 4.5 3.4 11 1 0
2023 4.9 0.7 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · CA · Parlier

666 Fruit sorting, grading, and packing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 16 employers in Parlier, 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 Villa Park Riverside 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valicoff Fruit Company, Inc 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR RIVERMAID TRADING COMPANY 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR RVO-N 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE BALOIAN PACKING CO., INC. 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE AJ FARM LABOR CONTRACTING, INC OFFICE 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2905-29050002-4148 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE Deacon Construction, LLC - CA 180 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maxco Supply Inc 436 FTE
CITY-NEAR Moonlight Packing Company, LLC Field 342 FTE
CITY-NEAR O'Neill Vintners and Distillers 279 FTE
CITY-NEAR Custom Produce Sales 166 FTE
NAT-TCR Lakewood 2 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR IFABM 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR King Industries 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Bi-Metallix Vishay Dale Electronics 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Courtyard at Mount Tabor 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE University Park Care Center 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Otis Elevator Company- OECF Bristol Research Center 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thieneman Construction, Inc. 180 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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