Nuts, salted, roasted, cooked, canned, manufacturing · California

Nichols Pistachio

Name: Nichols Pistachio Workplace Safety Data
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Hanford, CA · ~354 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 4.5
Avg TCR: 4.1
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Nichols Pistachio runs at 109% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Nuts, salted, roasted, cooked, canned, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Nichols Pistachio: 4.5 TCR = 109% of Nuts, salted, roasted, cooked, canned, manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nichols Pistachio safety composite

Nichols Pistachio scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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).

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 4.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers
DART rate: F 7.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Nichols Pistachio: 2.5 → 7.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 7.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.67× in 2021

Nichols Pistachio's TCR rose 5.3 from 2.5 in 2019 to 7.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311911 · Hanford, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.5 · 109% of ind

DART 7.5 DART
RANK #14/34
PHOTO DIAMOND FOODS INC
BOOK 3y book
INJ 45 inj
SIZE ~354 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DIAMOND FOODS INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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4.5
DIAMOND FOODS

4.5
Urbancrest, Oh

4.5
PB2 Foods

4.5
Woodland

4.4

What this shows Nichols Pistachio averages 4.5 TCR (109% of the Nuts, salted, roasted, cooked, canned, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Nichols Pistachio TCR series: 2019=2.5 · 2020=3.1 · 2021=7.8 · BLS 4.1

Where Nichols Pistachio falls in its industry

150 Nuts, salted, roasted, cooked, establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 34 Nuts, salted, roasted, cooked, employers in California.

Nichols Pistachio (354 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Nichols Pistachio has more employees than the Nuts, salted, roasted, cooked, canned, m median and a higher 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
2021	7.8	7.5	24
2020	3.1	3.1	12
2019	2.5	2.2	9

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311911 · CA · Hanford

150 Nuts, salted, roasted, cooked, canned, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 118 employers in Hanford, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	DIAMOND FOODS INC	STOCKTON, CA	4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Urbancrest, Ohio	URBANCREST, OH	4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	PB2 Foods	TIFTON, GA	4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Woodland	WOODLAND, CA	4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Walt Oxley Enterprises	SAN JOSE	354 FTE
STATE-SIZE	NPL West LLC - Southern California	EASTVALE	354 FTE
STATE-SIZE	On-Time Air Conditioning and Heating	PLEASANTON	354 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Anning-Johnson Company Northern California	HAYWARD	354 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Daniel C. Salas Harvesting Inc.	Hanford	2,932 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hanford Community Hospital	Hanford	1,849 FTE
CITY-NEAR	9292-AHHF001 - HOSPITAL	Hanford	1,153 FTE
CITY-NEAR	A.M. AG ENTERPRISE, INC.	Hanford	976 FTE
NAT-TCR	Ohio Alpha EMC	Winter Springs, FL	4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	ERI	Erie, PA	4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	TGH Family Care Center Kennedy	Tampa, FL	4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	CH	Champaign, IL	4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Greiner Bio-One North America Inc.	Monroe, NC	354 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Cheyenne Mountain Resort	Colorado, CO	354 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Caesarstone	Charlotte, NC	354 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Plant 2	Hamptonville, NC	354 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.