Agriculture production or harvesting crews · Florida

Lester Donley & Sons Harvesting, Inc.

Winter Haven, FL · ~299 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
20.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lester Donley & Sons Harvesting, Inc. runs at 451% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Agriculture production or harvesting crews workplace, earning a grade F.

Lester Donley & Sons Harvesting, Inc.: 20.3 TCR = 451% of Agriculture production or harvesting crews BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lester Donley & Sons Harvesting, Inc. safety composite

Lester Donley & Sons Harvesting, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 20.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Lester Donley & Sons Harvesting, Inc.: 12.8 → 27.8 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 27.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.42× in 2017

Lester Donley & Sons Harvesting, Inc.'s TCR rose 15.0 from 12.8 in 2016 to 27.8 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115115 · Winter Haven, FL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 20.3 · 451% of ind

  • DART 8.4 DART
  • RANK #41/41
  • PHOTO Agrima Farm Labor
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 40 inj
  • SIZE ~299 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Agrima Farm Labor (0.2 TCR gap)

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Lester Donley & Sons Harvesting, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lester Donley & Sons Harvesting, Inc. averages 20.3 TCR (451% of the Agriculture production or harvesting crews BLS benchmark).

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

Lester Donley & Sons Harvesting, Inc. TCR series: 2016=12.8 · 2017=27.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Lester Donley & Sons Harvesting, Inc. falls in its industry

836 Agriculture production or harv establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #41 safest of 41 Agriculture production or harv employers in Florida.

Lester Donley & Sons Harvesting, Inc. (299 employees, TCR 20.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Lester Donley & Sons Harvesting, Inc.
Lester Donley & Sons Harvesting, Inc. (299 employees, TCR 20.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Lester Donley & Sons Harvesting, Inc. has more employees than the Agriculture production or harvesting cre median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2017 27.8 8.4 33 0 0
2016 12.8 6.9 7 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115115 · FL · Winter Haven

836 Agriculture production or harvesting crews employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 128 employers in Winter Haven, FL · 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 Agrima Farm Labor 20.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR BC LABOR CONTRACTORS, INC. 19.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Penn Cove Shellfish LLC 19.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manco Ag Services 21.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE SECO Energy - Corporate 299 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smiths Interconnect Inc. 299 FTE
STATE-SIZE IKEA #207 Sunrise 299 FTE
STATE-SIZE 580 299 FTE
CITY-NEAR Winter Haven Hospital, Inc. (6100) 2,652 FTE
CITY-NEAR LEGOLAND Florida Resort 1,424 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6071 897 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6071 860 FTE
NAT-TCR 2073-SW-20730043-CS 20.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Pacific Shellfish Grays Harbor LLC 20.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-SWY-0005-0005-01438 20.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ohio Pulp Mills Inc. 20.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bristol (Vabri) 299 FTE
NAT-SIZE Us Inside Sales - Greenville (Scecd) 299 FTE
NAT-SIZE HOU - Airport United Airlines Offices 299 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valerus Fields Solutions, Sealy Facility 299 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.