Blackberry farming · Oregon

Gehring Farms

Salem, OR · ~18 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gehring Farms runs at 83% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Blackberry farming workplace, earning a grade C.

Gehring Farms: 3.7 TCR = 83% of Blackberry farming BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gehring Farms safety composite

Gehring Farms scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

C

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−8.4

2017→2024

Gehring Farms injury rate improved

Gehring Farms's TCR fell 8.4 from 8.4 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.4 · 2019=8.9 · 2020=4.3 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111334 · Salem, OR AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 83% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/6
  • PHOTO Marz Farms Inc.
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Marz Farms Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Gehring Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gehring Farms averages 3.7 TCR (83% of the Blackberry farming BLS benchmark).

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

Gehring Farms TCR series: 2017=8.4 · 2019=8.9 · 2020=4.3 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Gehring Farms falls in its industry

41 Blackberry farming establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 6 Blackberry farming employers in Oregon.

Gehring Farms (18 employees, TCR 3.7) among 26 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 5.6 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 27 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Gehring Farms
Gehring Farms (18 employees, TCR 3.7) among 26 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Gehring Farms has fewer employees than the Blackberry farming median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 4.5 0.0 1 0 0
2020 4.3 0.0 1 0 0
2019 8.9 0.0 2 0 0
2017 8.4 8.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111334 · OR · Salem

41 Blackberry farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 471 employers in Salem, OR · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Marz Farms Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR WR Allen, Inc 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Habelman Bros. Company - Millston 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern Hill Farms Market 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Performance Insulation - Executive Office 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amstad Farming Company - Hermiston Area 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Breyman Farms Inc 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bremer 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oregon State Hospital-Salem Campus 2,036 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : PDX7 1,559 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chemeketa Community College 1,551 FTE
CITY-NEAR Human Service Building ODHS 1,402 FTE
NAT-TCR Robert A. Aird, Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Berman Bros Inc 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR LJ Fabricators 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Advance Industries Group, LLC. 3.7 TCR

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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.