Potato farming, field and seed potato production · Oregon

J&W Walker Farms, Inc.

Name: J&W Walker Farms, Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Malin, OR · ~90 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 15.7
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 1
Fatality

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The verdict

J&W Walker Farms, Inc. runs at 348% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Potato farming, field and seed potato production workplace, earning a grade F.

J&W Walker Farms, Inc.: 15.7 TCR = 348% of Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

J&W Walker Farms, Inc. safety composite

J&W Walker Farms, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 12% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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).

7/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 15.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers
DART rate: F 7.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers
Fatalities: F 1

Safer than 5% 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

J&W Walker Farms, Inc.: 15.4 → 20.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 20.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.46× in 2024

J&W Walker Farms, Inc.'s TCR rose 4.6 from 15.4 in 2017 to 20.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111211 · Malin, OR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.7 · 348% of ind

DART 7.2 DART
RANK #11/12
PHOTO Balcom and Moe - farm
BOOK 5y book
INJ 75 inj
SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Balcom and Moe - farm (0.7 TCR gap)

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Allied Potato

17.5
CSS Farms - Co

17.2
This site

15.7
Balcom and Moe

15
Fazio Ag LLC

13.1

What this shows J&W Walker Farms, Inc. averages 15.7 TCR (348% of the Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS benchmark).

J&W Walker Farms, Inc. TCR series: 2017=15.4 · 2018=10.8 · 2021=18.3 · 2023=13.7 · 2024=20.1 · BLS 4.5

Where J&W Walker Farms, Inc. falls in its industry

153 Potato farming, field and seed establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 12 Potato farming, field and seed employers in Oregon.

J&W Walker Farms, Inc. (90 employees, TCR 15.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

J&W Walker Farms, Inc. has more employees than the Potato farming, field and seed potato pr 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	20.1	7.2	25	0	0
2023	13.7	8.8	14	0	0
2021	18.3	15.6	14	6	1
2018	10.8	10.8	11	0	0
2017	15.4	8.7	11	5	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111211 · OR · Malin

153 Potato farming, field and seed potato production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Balcom and Moe - farm	PASCO, WA	15.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	CSS Farms - Columbus	COLUMBUS, NE	17.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Allied Potato Northwest	PASCO, WA	17.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Fazio Ag LLC	PORTLAND, OR	13.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE	LMC Construction	TUALATIN	90 FTE
STATE-SIZE	105181 - I-205 WideningAbernethy Bridge Package A	OREGON CITY	90 FTE
STATE-SIZE	OEG, Inc. - Arlington	ARLINGTON	90 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Salt & Straw CKOR	PORTLAND	90 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Gold Dust Potato Processors, Inc.	Malin	27 FTE
NAT-TCR	Fisher Theatre	Detroit, MI	15.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Astoria Healthcare Operations CO LLC	Winter Haven, FL	15.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Fritch, Inc.	Bethlehem, PA	15.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Solaris Senior Living of North Naples	Naples, FL	15.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Buffalo Rock Tuscaloosa	Tuscaloosa, AL	90 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Hilton Garden Inn - South Bend	South Bend, IN	90 FTE
NAT-SIZE	139 Kirkwood	St Louis, MO	90 FTE
NAT-SIZE	125 University City	St Louis, MO	90 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, 2021, 2018, 2017. 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.