Apple orchards · New York

Nesbitt Fruit Farms

Waterport, NY · ~120 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nesbitt Fruit Farms runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Apple orchards workplace, earning a grade C.

Nesbitt Fruit Farms: 4.0 TCR = 90% of Apple orchards BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nesbitt Fruit Farms safety composite

Nesbitt Fruit Farms scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.4

2022→2024

Nesbitt Fruit Farms injury rate improved

Nesbitt Fruit Farms's TCR fell 0.4 from 2.9 in 2022 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.9 · 2023=6.8 · 2024=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111331 · Waterport, NY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 90% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/10
  • PHOTO Borton Main Plant
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~120 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Borton Main Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nesbitt Fruit Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nesbitt Fruit Farms averages 4.0 TCR (90% of the Apple orchards BLS benchmark).

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

Nesbitt Fruit Farms TCR series: 2022=2.9 · 2023=6.8 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Nesbitt Fruit Farms falls in its industry

90 Apple orchards establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 10 Apple orchards employers in New York.

Nesbitt Fruit Farms (120 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 Nesbitt Fruit Farms
Nesbitt Fruit Farms (120 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Nesbitt Fruit Farms has more employees than the Apple orchards median and a lower 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 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2023 6.8 2.3 3 0 0
2022 2.9 2.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111331 · NY · Waterport

90 Apple orchards employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York 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 Borton Main Plant 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR John B. Peters Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR B W Bishop & Sons Inc 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Al's Apples Inc 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Global Facility Management & Construction Inc. 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michels Power Inc-NY-Canton 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Peckham Road Corp 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Suit-Kote Preble (Road) 120 FTE
NAT-TCR EMPSD, Inc 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Newly Weds Foods 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR The Clifton 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cedar County Memorial Hospital 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Echo Park Elementary School 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Taylor Power Systems Inc 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Centrus Energy Corp. 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE All-Fill, Inc 120 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. 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.