Pear farming · California

Kay Dix, Inc.

Walnut Grove, CA · ~166 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kay Dix, Inc. runs at 136% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pear farming workplace, earning a grade D.

Kay Dix, Inc.: 6.1 TCR = 136% of Pear farming BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kay Dix, Inc. safety composite

Kay Dix, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−5.5

2018→2022

Kay Dix, Inc. injury rate improved

Kay Dix, Inc.'s TCR fell 5.5 from 9.5 in 2018 to 4.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 9.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=9.5 · 2019=6.4 · 2020=4.5 · 2021=6.0 · 2022=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111339 · Walnut Grove, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 136% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #21/37
  • PHOTO Naumes, Inc. Pateros…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 46 inj
  • SIZE ~166 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Naumes, Inc. Pateros Orchard (0.1 TCR gap)

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Kay Dix, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kay Dix, Inc. averages 6.1 TCR (136% of the Pear farming BLS benchmark).

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

Kay Dix, Inc. TCR series: 2018=9.5 · 2019=6.4 · 2020=4.5 · 2021=6 · 2022=4 · BLS 4.5

Where Kay Dix, Inc. falls in its industry

90 Pear farming establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 37 Pear farming employers in California.

Kay Dix, Inc. (166 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 6.2 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Kay Dix, Inc.
Kay Dix, Inc. (166 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Kay Dix, Inc. has more employees than the Pear farming median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. 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
2022 4.0 1.6 5 0 0
2021 6.0 1.3 8 1 0
2020 4.5 1.3 7 0 0
2019 6.4 2.9 10 1 0
2018 9.5 1.2 16 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111339 · CA · Walnut Grove

90 Pear farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 3 employers in Walnut Grove, 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 Naumes, Inc. Pateros Orchard 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR SummerSweet Farms Inc. 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR COR Operations Artois 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Taylor Brothers Farms Inc 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE CLOVIS OFFICE 166 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stronghold Engineering, Inc. 166 FTE
STATE-SIZE Concrete North, Inc. 166 FTE
STATE-SIZE Landavazo Brothers Inc. 166 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fonseca & Fonseca, Inc. 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Malcolm McCormack, Inc. 20 FTE
NAT-TCR Massachusetts Eye and Ear 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR HG509 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Fisher Auto Parts - BECK 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-SWY-0025-0025-01087 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Longwood Health and Rehabilitation Center 166 FTE
NAT-SIZE Azenx - Phoenix 166 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delong's, Inc. 166 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Palms of Mount Pleasant 166 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.