Walnut hulling and shelling · California

Grower Direct Nut Company

Hughson, CA · ~226 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Grower Direct Nut Company runs at 264% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Walnut hulling and shelling workplace, earning a grade F.

Grower Direct Nut Company: 11.9 TCR = 264% of Walnut hulling and shelling BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Grower Direct Nut Company safety composite

Grower Direct Nut Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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).

F

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Grower Direct Nut Company: 7.8 → 15.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 15.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.27× in 2024

Grower Direct Nut Company's TCR rose 8.1 from 7.8 in 2022 to 15.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 11.9 · 264% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #214/236
  • PHOTO Paragon Potato Farms…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 48 inj
  • SIZE ~226 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Paragon Potato Farms - Frontier (0.1 TCR gap)

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Grower Direct Nut Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Grower Direct Nut Company averages 11.9 TCR (264% of the Walnut hulling and shelling BLS benchmark).

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

Grower Direct Nut Company TCR series: 2022=7.8 · 2024=15.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Grower Direct Nut Company falls in its industry

666 Walnut hulling and shelling establishments

Safer than 5% 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 #214 safest of 236 Walnut hulling and shelling employers in California.

Grower Direct Nut Company (226 employees, TCR 11.9) 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 Grower Direct Nut Company
Grower Direct Nut Company (226 employees, TCR 11.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Grower Direct Nut Company has more employees than the Walnut hulling and shelling 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 15.9 3.2 30 0 0
2022 7.8 6.1 18 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · CA · Hughson

666 Walnut hulling and shelling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 29 employers in Hughson, 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 Paragon Potato Farms - Frontier 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mountainland Apples, Inc 11.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central California Almond Growers (Kerman) 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR RBI Packing, LLC 12.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bayview Vineyards, INC 226 FTE
STATE-SIZE Family Tree Farms Inc. 226 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vinculums Services LLC 226 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alvah Contracting 226 FTE
CITY-NEAR Duarte Nursery Inc. 367 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3118_6025 303 FTE
CITY-NEAR Office/Processing 273 FTE
CITY-NEAR California TrusFrame, Hughson 215 FTE
NAT-TCR Ecdc Bldg 10 - 3039 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Holden Oil - Peabody 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Evergreen Village Markets LLC- RAYMOND LOCATION 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Browns Valley Health Center 11.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE GFL Environmental Wayne 226 FTE
NAT-SIZE Synthomer Jefferson Hills LLC 226 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glenaire 226 FTE
NAT-SIZE Franklin. OH 226 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, 2022. 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.