Apple orchards · Washington

ML Taggares Inc dba Arete Vineyards

Richland, WA · ~43 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ML Taggares Inc dba Arete Vineyards runs at 214% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Apple orchards workplace, earning a grade F.

ML Taggares Inc dba Arete Vineyards: 9.7 TCR = 214% of Apple orchards BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ML Taggares Inc dba Arete Vineyards safety composite

ML Taggares Inc dba Arete Vineyards scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.1

2020→2024

ML Taggares Inc dba Arete Vineyards injury rate improved

ML Taggares Inc dba Arete Vineyards's TCR fell 5.1 from 14.8 in 2020 to 9.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 14.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=14.8 · 2021=10.6 · 2022=4.2 · 2023=9.0 · 2024=9.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111331 · Richland, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.7 · 214% of ind

  • DART 9.7 DART
  • RANK #38/51
  • PHOTO KNOUSE FRUITLANDS, I…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: KNOUSE FRUITLANDS, INC. (0.1 TCR gap)

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ML Taggares Inc dba Arete Vineyards in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ML Taggares Inc dba Arete Vineyards averages 9.7 TCR (214% of the Apple orchards BLS benchmark).

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

ML Taggares Inc dba Arete Vineyards TCR series: 2020=14.8 · 2021=10.6 · 2022=4.2 · 2023=9 · 2024=9.7 · BLS 4.5

Where ML Taggares Inc dba Arete Vineyards falls in its industry

90 Apple orchards establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #38 safest of 51 Apple orchards employers in Washington.

ML Taggares Inc dba Arete Vineyards (43 employees, TCR 9.7) 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 ML Taggares Inc dba Arete Vineyards
ML Taggares Inc dba Arete Vineyards (43 employees, TCR 9.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 6.6

ML Taggares Inc dba Arete Vineyards 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 9.7 9.7 2 0 0
2023 9.0 9.0 2 0 0
2022 4.2 0.0 1 0 0
2021 10.6 10.6 2 0 0
2020 14.8 4.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111331 · WA · Richland

90 Apple orchards 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 · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR KNOUSE FRUITLANDS, INC. 9.6 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 Andrews Vineyards 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trout Lake Farm East Farm 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pe Ell 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE PSE, BSC - Bellingham Service Center 43 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 City of Ham Lake 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 1961 - Eastvale 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hall Technical Service NY, LLC 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR RJP Framing 9.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Doubleback Transportation, LLC 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Smith Setzer & Sons, Inc. 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Preform Solutions Inc. 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Precision Steel Mfg. Corp. 43 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. 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.