Vegetable and potato farming, potato dominant crop, field and seed potato production · Washington

Hyer Farms

Moses Lake, WA · ~50 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hyer Farms runs at 246% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Vegetable and potato farming, potato dominant crop, field and seed potato production workplace, earning a grade F.

Hyer Farms: 11.1 TCR = 246% of Vegetable and potato farming, potato dominant crop, field and seed potato production BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hyer Farms safety composite

Hyer Farms scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

−0.7

2021→2024

Hyer Farms injury rate improved

Hyer Farms's TCR fell 0.7 from 10.1 in 2021 to 9.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 17.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=10.1 · 2022=17.1 · 2023=7.7 · 2024=9.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111211 · Moses Lake, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.1 · 246% of ind

  • DART 8.2 DART
  • RANK #15/18
  • PHOTO CSS Farms - Pasco
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CSS Farms - Pasco (0.5 TCR gap)

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Hyer Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hyer Farms averages 11.1 TCR (246% of the Vegetable and potato farming, potato dominant crop, field and seed potato production BLS benchmark).

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

Hyer Farms TCR series: 2021=10.1 · 2022=17.1 · 2023=7.7 · 2024=9.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Hyer Farms falls in its industry

153 Vegetable and potato farming, establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 18 Vegetable and potato farming, employers in Washington.

Hyer Farms (50 employees, TCR 11.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hyer Farms
Hyer Farms (50 employees, TCR 11.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Hyer Farms has fewer employees than the Vegetable and potato farming, potato dom median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 9.3 8.2 8 0 0
2023 7.7 3.3 7 0 0
2022 17.1 12.8 12 0 0
2021 10.1 2.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111211 · WA · Moses Lake

153 Vegetable and potato farming, potato dominant crop, field and seed potato production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 89 employers in Moses Lake, WA · 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 CSS Farms - Pasco 11.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR A. Oseguera Company 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Walther Farms NE 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR H2A Complete II, Inc. Atlantic Harvesting 11.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Allied Potato Northwest 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bronze Star Inc 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE L&L Farm Pasco - Burbank 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE PATERSON WA (WATTS DAIRY) 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Terex Washington Moses Lake 777 FTE
CITY-NEAR Moses Lake, WA 672 FTE
CITY-NEAR Samaritan Hospital (DBA Samaritan Healthcare) 532 FTE
CITY-NEAR Samaritan Hospital 497 FTE
NAT-TCR Knights Grapevine Nursery 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Optimae Lifeservices 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Trail Ridge 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Westin Nanea Ocean Villas 11.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE SFL Elk Creek Burleson, LP 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE MES Delivery LLC 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Concord Transportation 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Phoenix at Johnson Ferry 50 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, 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.