Almond farming · California

M3 West Incorporated

Modesto, CA · ~36 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

M3 West Incorporated runs at 42% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Almond farming workplace, earning a grade A.

M3 West Incorporated: 1.9 TCR = 42% of Almond farming BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

M3 West Incorporated safety composite

M3 West Incorporated scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

M3 West Incorporated: 2.1 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 2.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.34× in 2023

M3 West Incorporated's TCR rose 0.4 from 2.1 in 2019 to 2.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111335 · Modesto, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.9 · 42% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #19/107
  • PHOTO Nichols Farms
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nichols Farms (0.0 TCR gap)

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M3 West Incorporated in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows M3 West Incorporated averages 1.9 TCR (42% of the Almond farming BLS benchmark).

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

M3 West Incorporated TCR series: 2019=2.1 · 2020=2.2 · 2021=0 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=2.5 · BLS 4.5

Where M3 West Incorporated falls in its industry

120 Almond farming establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 107 Almond farming employers in California.

M3 West Incorporated (36 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate M3 West Incorporated
M3 West Incorporated (36 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.0

M3 West Incorporated has fewer employees than the Almond farming median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2023 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2022 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2019 2.1 2.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111335 · CA · Modesto

120 Almond farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 418 employers in Modesto, 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 Nichols Farms 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chase Farms - Arizona 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR MacFarms LLC 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farmland Management Services 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE River Garden Farms 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knight Farms 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.H. MEEK & SONS INC. 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dirt Farmer and Company 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Valley Hospitals (30240) 3,153 FTE
CITY-NEAR Modesto Operations 3,043 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-930 3,018 FTE
CITY-NEAR 930 DOCTORS MEDICAL CENTER OF MODESTO 2,759 FTE
NAT-TCR Hammond Services 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Pattison Metal Fab, Inc 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 22043 - Helena 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Henkels & McCoy, Pennsylvania - Blue Bell - Gas Operations (60G1) 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Angelica Forest Products 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Five Star Residences of Lafayette #46048 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Salem District Bridge Crews 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brooklyn Navy Yard CoGen Partners 36 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.