Potato farming, field and seed potato production · Washington

Norm Nelson, Inc.

Burlington, WA · ~56 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Norm Nelson, Inc. runs at 112% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Potato farming, field and seed potato production workplace, earning a grade C.

Norm Nelson, Inc.: 5.0 TCR = 112% of Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Norm Nelson, Inc. safety composite

Norm Nelson, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50%), 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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

−6.6

2020→2023

Norm Nelson, Inc. injury rate improved

Norm Nelson, Inc.'s TCR fell 6.6 from 8.3 in 2020 to 1.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=8.3 · 2023=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111211 · Burlington, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.0 · 112% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #9/18
  • PHOTO Owyhee farming
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Owyhee farming (0.1 TCR gap)

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Norm Nelson, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Norm Nelson, Inc. averages 5.0 TCR (112% of the Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS benchmark).

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

Norm Nelson, Inc. TCR series: 2020=8.3 · 2023=1.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Norm Nelson, Inc. falls in its industry

153 Potato farming, field and seed establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 18 Potato farming, field and seed employers in Washington.

Norm Nelson, Inc. (56 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Norm Nelson, Inc.
Norm Nelson, Inc. (56 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Norm Nelson, Inc. has more employees than the Potato farming, field and seed potato pr median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2020 8.3 5.0 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111211 · WA · Burlington

153 Potato farming, field and seed potato production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 67 employers in Burlington, 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 Owyhee farming 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CSS Farms, LLC Pasco, WA Farm 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CSS Farms - Winnemucca 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Walther Farms UP 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Soli Organic Inc. - Washington 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yakima Chief Ranches 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Admin Building 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE SDC, LLC dba Dowbuilt 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sakuma Brothers Farms, Inc 384 FTE
CITY-NEAR 701-00024 340 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0662 - BURLINGTON WA WHSE 336 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fisher Construction Group, Inc. 331 FTE
NAT-TCR Bostik Fort Worth 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR KCM Cabinets Inc 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Voss Manufacturing Inc 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Rapid City Medical Center, LLP 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aj Seabra Supermarket Vi Inc 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Conns Service Houston 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE AmNav Maritime LLC 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hat Creek Construction & Materials, Inc. 56 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, 2020. 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.