Bee production (i.e., apiculture) · California

Olivarez Honey Bees

Orland, CA · ~114 workers · 7 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

Olivarez Honey Bees runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bee production (i.e., apiculture) workplace, earning a grade C.

Olivarez Honey Bees: 4.0 TCR = 89% of Bee production (i.e., apiculture) BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Olivarez Honey Bees safety composite

Olivarez Honey Bees scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

Fatalities
C 0

Safer than 55% 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

−5.8

2017→2024

Olivarez Honey Bees injury rate improved

Olivarez Honey Bees's TCR fell 5.8 from 6.8 in 2017 to 1.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=6.8 · 2018=5.5 · 2020=7.5 · 2021=3.0 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112910 · Orland, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 89% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/7
  • PHOTO Strachan Apiaries Inc
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~114 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Strachan Apiaries Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Olivarez Honey Bees in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Olivarez Honey Bees averages 4.0 TCR (89% of the Bee production (i.e., apiculture) BLS benchmark).

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

Olivarez Honey Bees TCR series: 2017=6.8 · 2018=5.5 · 2020=7.5 · 2021=3 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=1 · BLS 4.5

Where Olivarez Honey Bees falls in its industry

11 Bee production (i.e., apicultu establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 7 Bee production (i.e., apicultu employers in California.

Olivarez Honey Bees (114 employees, TCR 4.0) among 8 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.1 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 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 050100150 024681012 Average employees Total Case Rate Tauzer Apiaries IncwarehouseROSSMAN APIARIES LLCBZ-Bee PollinationCarys Honey Farms, Inc.Bees FloridaBees MinnesotaWonderful Bees FloridaOlivarez Honey Bees
Olivarez Honey Bees (114 employees, TCR 4.0) among 8 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Olivarez Honey Bees has more employees than the Bee production (i.e., apiculture) median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2024 1.0 0.0 1 0 0
2023 1.7 0.9 1 1 0
2022 2.6 0.7 1 3 0
2021 3.0 3.0 3 1 0
2020 7.5 7.5 8 0 0
2018 5.5 5.5 8 0 0
2017 6.8 5.9 5 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112910 · CA · Orland

11 Bee production (i.e., apiculture) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 24 employers in Orland, CA · 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 Strachan Apiaries Inc 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR BZ-Bee Pollination 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bees Minnesota 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wonderful Orchards-Belridge 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE SIERRA AG SERVICES, INC 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE PURO VIDA BERRIES 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE Terra-Gen Tehachapi Wind 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR JC Farm Services, Inc. 265 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - WTH1 163 FTE
CITY-NEAR Capay Farms 142 FTE
CITY-NEAR Beacon Logistics 75 FTE
NAT-TCR Prisma-Tuomey Hosp 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Portland, TN 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 3626 Fayetteville 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Landover 0384 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Spray Products 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE E Amanti & Sons, Inc 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cerenovus Miami 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grand Rapids Public Museum 114 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, 2018, 2017. 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.