Almond hulling and shelling · California

Hughson Nut, Inc - Verduga Facility

Hughson, CA · ~84 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hughson Nut, Inc - Verduga Facility runs at 118% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Almond hulling and shelling workplace, earning a grade C.

Hughson Nut, Inc - Verduga Facility: 5.3 TCR = 118% of Almond hulling and shelling BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hughson Nut, Inc - Verduga Facility safety composite

Hughson Nut, Inc - Verduga Facility scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

Hughson Nut, Inc - Verduga Facility: 4.6 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.12× in 2020

Hughson Nut, Inc - Verduga Facility's TCR rose 1.4 from 4.6 in 2017 to 6.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 1.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 5.3 · 118% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #121/236
  • PHOTO Columbia Bean & Prod…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Columbia Bean & Produce (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hughson Nut, Inc - Verduga Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hughson Nut, Inc - Verduga Facility averages 5.3 TCR (118% of the Almond hulling and shelling BLS benchmark).

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

Hughson Nut, Inc - Verduga Facility TCR series: 2017=4.6 · 2018=6.8 · 2019=4 · 2020=6 · BLS 4.5

Where Hughson Nut, Inc - Verduga Facility falls in its industry

666 Almond hulling and shelling establishments

Safer than 30% 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 #121 safest of 236 Almond hulling and shelling employers in California.

Hughson Nut, Inc - Verduga Facility (84 employees, TCR 5.3) 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 Hughson Nut, Inc - Verduga Facility
Hughson Nut, Inc - Verduga Facility (84 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Hughson Nut, Inc - Verduga Facility has more employees than the Almond 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
2020 6.0 6.0 1 2 0
2019 4.0 3.3 6 0 0
2018 6.8 4.7 8 2 0
2017 4.6 2.8 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · CA · Hughson

666 Almond 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 Columbia Bean & Produce 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Moonlight Packing Company, LLC Plant 1 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Malaga Facility 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Emerald Packing Company LLC 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE montalvo farms 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hansen Custom Farming, LLC 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hilarides Dairy 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE McIntyre Labor Service, LLC. 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR Duarte Nursery Inc. 367 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3118_6025 303 FTE
CITY-NEAR Office/Processing 273 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grower Direct Nut Company 226 FTE
NAT-TCR COS-ODFL 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hulett Environmental Services, Inc. - Broward office 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Garelick Largo 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Operations 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE WC Paducah 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Transportation Department 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mercy Health Lifestar Ambulance 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gilbert Industries Inc 84 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.