Kiwi fruit farming · California

Kiwi Farming/Packing

Hanford, CA · ~29 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kiwi Farming/Packing runs at 214% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Kiwi fruit farming workplace, earning a grade F.

Kiwi Farming/Packing: 9.6 TCR = 214% of Kiwi fruit farming BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kiwi Farming/Packing safety composite

Kiwi Farming/Packing scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

F

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 16.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Kiwi Farming/Packing: 5.3 → 16.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 16.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.68× in 2019

Kiwi Farming/Packing's TCR rose 10.8 from 5.3 in 2017 to 16.1 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111339 · Hanford, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.6 · 214% of ind

  • DART 16.1 DART
  • RANK #29/37
  • PHOTO KMO
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: KMO (0.1 TCR gap)

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Kiwi Farming/Packing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kiwi Farming/Packing averages 9.6 TCR (214% of the Kiwi fruit farming BLS benchmark).

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

Kiwi Farming/Packing TCR series: 2017=5.3 · 2018=7.4 · 2019=16.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Kiwi Farming/Packing falls in its industry

90 Kiwi fruit farming establishments

Safer than 27% 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 #29 safest of 37 Kiwi fruit farming employers in California.

Kiwi Farming/Packing (29 employees, TCR 9.6) 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 Kiwi Farming/Packing
Kiwi Farming/Packing (29 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Kiwi Farming/Packing has fewer employees than the Kiwi fruit farming median and a higher 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
2019 16.1 16.1 1 0 0
2018 7.4 7.4 2 0 0
2017 5.3 1.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111339 · CA · Hanford

90 Kiwi fruit farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 118 employers in Hanford, 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 KMO 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greenwell Farms Inc. - Kealakekua 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kyle Mathison Orchards 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wiebe Farms, Inc. 10.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sean V. Doherty Farms 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blanco Farms, LLC 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE CONSTRUCTION SUPPORT SHOP 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cottonwood Farms 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Daniel C. Salas Harvesting Inc. 2,932 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hanford Community Hospital 1,849 FTE
CITY-NEAR 9292-AHHF001 - HOSPITAL 1,153 FTE
CITY-NEAR A.M. AG ENTERPRISE, INC. 976 FTE
NAT-TCR WESTCO - NA Alliance 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Gcmc - Main Campus 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR West Bay of Tampa 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Mary's 9.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Los Sures Management Company 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Product Resources 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Markesan Highway S Plant 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE STIHL Northwest 29 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: 2019, 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.