Apple orchards · Pennsylvania

John B. Peters Inc.

Gardners, PA · ~81 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

John B. Peters Inc. runs at 91% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Apple orchards workplace, earning a grade C.

John B. Peters Inc.: 4.1 TCR = 91% of Apple orchards BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

John B. Peters Inc. safety composite

John B. Peters Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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

−10.0

2019→2024

John B. Peters Inc. injury rate improved

John B. Peters Inc.'s TCR fell 10.0 from 10.0 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 10.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=10.0 · 2020=5.1 · 2021=2.0 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=4.1 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111331 · Gardners, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.1 · 91% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/7
  • PHOTO Nesbitt Fruit Farms
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~81 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nesbitt Fruit Farms (0.0 TCR gap)

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John B. Peters Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows John B. Peters Inc. averages 4.1 TCR (91% of the Apple orchards BLS benchmark).

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

John B. Peters Inc. TCR series: 2019=10 · 2020=5.1 · 2021=2 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=4.1 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where John B. Peters Inc. falls in its industry

90 Apple orchards establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 7 Apple orchards employers in Pennsylvania.

John B. Peters Inc. (81 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 6.6 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate John B. Peters Inc.
John B. Peters Inc. (81 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 6.6

John B. Peters Inc. has more employees than the Apple orchards median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.6. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 4.1 2.0 3 1 0
2022 3.3 3.3 3 0 0
2021 2.0 1.0 2 0 0
2020 5.1 5.1 4 0 0
2019 10.0 8.8 7 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111331 · PA · Gardners

90 Apple orchards employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 8 employers in Gardners, PA · 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 Nesbitt Fruit Farms 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Borton Main Plant 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR B W Bishop & Sons Inc 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Al's Apples Inc 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Alvin H. Butz, Inc. 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE HMA Paving - Lancaster/Berks Area 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Structures Region 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Howard Concrete Pumping Company 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rice Fruit Company 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Gardners 146 FTE
CITY-NEAR O'Malley Wood Products 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bonnie Brae Fruit Farms, Inc. 49 FTE
NAT-TCR 258 - Heritage Valley Ca 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Vitakraft Sun Seed, Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 1501 Aurora Co 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 6120 Maspeth Ny 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Spartech, LLC 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sands Wall Systems, Inc. 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Santa Rosa Ca 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marc Glassman Inc 16ME 81 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, 2020, 2019. 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.