Fruit sorting, grading, and packing · California

Fowler Packing West

Fresno, CA · ~514 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fowler Packing West runs at 131% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fruit sorting, grading, and packing workplace, earning a grade D.

Fowler Packing West: 5.9 TCR = 131% of Fruit sorting, grading, and packing BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fowler Packing West safety composite

Fowler Packing West scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

−1.9

2023→2024

Fowler Packing West injury rate improved

Fowler Packing West's TCR fell 1.9 from 6.9 in 2023 to 5.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.9 · 2024=5.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 131% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #130/236
  • PHOTO Cool Pacific Land Co…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 60 inj
  • SIZE ~514 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cool Pacific Land Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fowler Packing West in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fowler Packing West averages 5.9 TCR (131% 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 West TCR series: 2023=6.9 · 2024=5 · BLS 4.5

Where Fowler Packing West falls in its industry

666 Fruit sorting, grading, and pa establishments

Safer than 27% 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 #130 safest of 236 Fruit sorting, grading, and pa employers in California.

Fowler Packing West (514 employees, TCR 5.9) 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 West
Fowler Packing West (514 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Fowler Packing West 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 5.0 2.4 27 2 0
2023 6.9 5.4 33 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 Cool Pacific Land Company 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lincoln 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Treehouse California Almonds 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2050-Clarion, IA (Monsanto Co.) 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Agriculture 514 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fresenius USA Inc. 515 FTE
STATE-SIZE CN Pleasanton 515 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sacramento Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware 515 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 Finger Lakes Chemicals, Inc. 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Emerson School 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 810 - Purple Cow Creamery 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Janus IN 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lutheran Kosciusko Hospital 514 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - RDU9 514 FTE
NAT-SIZE LyondellBasell La Porte Complex 514 FTE
NAT-SIZE Charcuterie Artisans (Daniele Inc) 514 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.