Apple orchards · Pennsylvania

Knouse Fruitlands, Inc.

Arendtsville, PA · ~32 workers · 6 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

Knouse Fruitlands, Inc. runs at 213% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Apple orchards workplace, earning a grade F.

Knouse Fruitlands, Inc.: 9.6 TCR = 213% of Apple orchards BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knouse Fruitlands, Inc. safety composite

Knouse Fruitlands, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Knouse Fruitlands, Inc.: 4.5 → 13.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 18.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Knouse Fruitlands, Inc.'s TCR rose 8.5 from 4.5 in 2018 to 13.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 18.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111331 · Arendtsville, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.6 · 213% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO ML Taggares Inc dba …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ML Taggares Inc dba Arete Vineyards (0.1 TCR gap)

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Knouse Fruitlands, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knouse Fruitlands, Inc. averages 9.6 TCR (213% of the Apple orchards BLS benchmark).

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

Knouse Fruitlands, Inc. TCR series: 2018=4.5 · 2020=10.9 · 2021=10.7 · 2022=18.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=13 · BLS 4.5

Where Knouse Fruitlands, Inc. falls in its industry

90 Apple orchards establishments

Safer than 18% 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 #7 safest of 7 Apple orchards employers in Pennsylvania.

Knouse Fruitlands, Inc. (32 employees, TCR 9.6) 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 Knouse Fruitlands, Inc.
Knouse Fruitlands, Inc. (32 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Knouse Fruitlands, Inc. has fewer employees than the Apple orchards median and a higher 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 13.0 0.0 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 18.5 18.5 5 0 0
2021 10.7 10.7 3 0 0
2020 10.9 5.5 4 0 0
2018 4.5 2.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111331 · PA · Arendtsville

90 Apple orchards employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR ML Taggares Inc dba Arete Vineyards 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR CUSTOM ORCHARDS 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR R & L Orchard Co. 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baker Produce - Goosehill I 9.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Paramount Mushroom Farms LLC 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wharf 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE DAJ Mushroom 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ohio River Partner Shareholders LLC 32 FTE
NAT-TCR 007000 Atlanta-Whse 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Wine Valley Inn 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Village of Fox River Grove 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant 7 Insul-Courtic Corp 9.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE M.D. Stainless Services, INC 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Enmet LLC 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fairmont City 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Las Vegas Tech Support Office 32 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, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.