Cherry farming · Washington

Mark Bauder Orchards

Richland, WA · ~15 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mark Bauder Orchards runs at 230% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cherry farming workplace, earning a grade F.

Mark Bauder Orchards: 10.3 TCR = 230% of Cherry farming BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mark Bauder Orchards safety composite

Mark Bauder Orchards scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

Mark Bauder Orchards: 4.0 → 23.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 23.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.75× in 2023

Mark Bauder Orchards's TCR rose 19.3 from 4.0 in 2019 to 23.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111339 · Richland, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.3 · 230% of ind

  • DART 7.8 DART
  • RANK #10/12
  • PHOTO JM TRAVER
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~15 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: JM TRAVER (0.1 TCR gap)

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Mark Bauder Orchards in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mark Bauder Orchards averages 10.3 TCR (230% of the Cherry farming BLS benchmark).

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

Mark Bauder Orchards TCR series: 2019=4 · 2020=8 · 2021=0 · 2022=16.5 · 2023=23.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Mark Bauder Orchards falls in its industry

90 Cherry farming establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 12 Cherry farming employers in Washington.

Mark Bauder Orchards (15 employees, TCR 10.3) 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 Mark Bauder Orchards
Mark Bauder Orchards (15 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Mark Bauder Orchards has fewer employees than the Cherry 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
2023 23.3 7.8 3 0 0
2022 16.5 0.0 4 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 8.0 0.0 2 0 0
2019 4.0 4.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111339 · WA · Richland

90 Cherry farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 83 employers in Richland, WA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR JM TRAVER 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wiebe Farms, Inc. 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greenwell Farms Inc. - Kealakekua 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cherry Blossom Orchard, LLC 10.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pavlof Fisheries 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Appellation MGMT GRP 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE DTPC, LLC 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gillespie Roofing, Inc. 15 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2252-00000320 4,577 FTE
CITY-NEAR WA566 KADLEC REGIONAL MEDICAL CTR-RICHLAND HR 2,150 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waste Treatment Completion Company (WTCC) 1,978 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waste Treatment Plant (WTP) 673 FTE
NAT-TCR Apex Marine, Inc. (Polar Kraft) 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR MFA Mountain Grove Feed and Fertilizer 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR North America : Sacramento 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Fridley MN 10.3 TCR

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.