Nuts, kernels and seeds, roasting and processing · California

Hilltop Ranch

Ballico, CA · ~189 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hilltop Ranch runs at 164% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Nuts, kernels and seeds, roasting and processing workplace, earning a grade D.

Hilltop Ranch: 6.7 TCR = 164% of Nuts, kernels and seeds, roasting and processing BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hilltop Ranch safety composite

Hilltop Ranch scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

−2.4

2016→2022

Hilltop Ranch injury rate improved

Hilltop Ranch's TCR fell 2.4 from 8.7 in 2016 to 6.3 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.7 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.7 · 2021=5.2 · 2022=6.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311911 · Ballico, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.7 · 164% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #27/34
  • PHOTO SunTree Snack Foods NC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~189 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SunTree Snack Foods NC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hilltop Ranch in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hilltop Ranch averages 6.7 TCR (164% of the Nuts, kernels and seeds, roasting and processing BLS benchmark).

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

Hilltop Ranch TCR series: 2016=8.7 · 2021=5.2 · 2022=6.3 · BLS 4.1

Where Hilltop Ranch falls in its industry

150 Nuts, kernels and seeds, roast establishments

Safer than 23% 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 #27 safest of 34 Nuts, kernels and seeds, roast employers in California.

Hilltop Ranch (189 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hilltop Ranch
Hilltop Ranch (189 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Hilltop Ranch has more employees than the Nuts, kernels and seeds, roasting and pr median and a higher 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
2022 6.3 4.0 9 2 0
2021 5.2 4.6 5 4 0
2016 8.7 5.8 17 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311911 · CA · Ballico

150 Nuts, kernels and seeds, roasting and processing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 12 employers in Ballico, 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 SunTree Snack Foods NC 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Nuts, LLC 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR California Almond Packers & Export 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Star Snacks 105 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fallbrook 189 FTE
STATE-SIZE Youngstown Grape Dist., Inc 189 FTE
STATE-SIZE Moonlight Companies Plant 4/MCSI 4 189 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sentinel Peak Resources 189 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ballico 262 FTE
CITY-NEAR LE - 03 196 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hilltop Ranch Inc. - Turlock Rd. 144 FTE
CITY-NEAR farm management inc 104 FTE
NAT-TCR Witherspoon Rose Culture 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Allied Omaha Oil & Tire 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Agropur-Le Sueur Cheese Company 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Amthor International 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE CORE Construction, Inc. 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE Custom Concrete Co, Inc. 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mantua Ohio 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rawhide Inc 189 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: 2022, 2021, 2016. 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.