Almond farming · California

Hester Orchards Inc.

Visalia, CA · ~35 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hester Orchards Inc. runs at 46% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Almond farming workplace, earning a grade A.

Hester Orchards Inc.: 2.0 TCR = 46% of Almond farming BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hester Orchards Inc. safety composite

Hester Orchards Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.1 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%).

Rising injury rate

Hester Orchards Inc.: 0.0 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

Hester Orchards Inc.'s TCR rose 4.1 from 0.0 in 2022 to 4.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111335 · Visalia, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 2.0 · 46% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #25/107
  • PHOTO Roche Brothers Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Roche Brothers Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hester Orchards Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hester Orchards Inc. averages 2.0 TCR (46% of the Almond farming BLS benchmark).

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

Hester Orchards Inc. TCR series: 2022=0 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Hester Orchards Inc. falls in its industry

120 Almond farming establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 107 Almond farming employers in California.

Hester Orchards Inc. (35 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hester Orchards Inc.
Hester Orchards Inc. (35 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Hester Orchards Inc. has fewer employees than the Almond farming median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 4.1 4.1 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111335 · CA · Visalia

120 Almond farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 349 employers in Visalia, 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 Roche Brothers Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zipper Farms, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR workers 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mike Woolf Farming LLC 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE CONSTRUCTION FABRICATION/CARPENTRY/PAINTING/ELECTRIC/PIPE 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meek Ranches LLC 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dresick Farms, Inc. - Farm 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wolfsen Inc 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kaweah Delta Health Care District 4,961 FTE
CITY-NEAR Paragon Personnel 2,129 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 194 1,485 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 473 1,479 FTE
NAT-TCR CGI Federal Inc - Seattle Passport Agency 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR TMX2142 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lithko Restoration Technologies LLC 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brookover Feed Yard 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Archer Burlington 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mr Greens Produce - San Antonio 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2119 Merrick Rd 35 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.