Cherry farming · Oregon

Polehn Farms Inc

The Dalles, OR · ~49 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Polehn Farms Inc runs at 150% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cherry farming workplace, earning a grade D.

Polehn Farms Inc: 6.8 TCR = 150% of Cherry farming BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Polehn Farms Inc safety composite

Polehn Farms Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Polehn Farms Inc: 0.1 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 15.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.79× in 2024

Polehn Farms Inc's TCR rose 7.9 from 0.1 in 2019 to 8.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 15.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111339 · The Dalles, OR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.8 · 150% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #13/22
  • PHOTO Long Ranch LLC
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Long Ranch LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Polehn Farms Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Polehn Farms Inc averages 6.8 TCR (150% of the Cherry farming BLS benchmark).

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

Polehn Farms Inc TCR series: 2019=0.1 · 2020=15.1 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=7.2 · 2024=8 · BLS 4.5

Where Polehn Farms Inc falls in its industry

90 Cherry farming establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 22 Cherry farming employers in Oregon.

Polehn Farms Inc (49 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 6.2 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Polehn Farms Inc
Polehn Farms Inc (49 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Polehn Farms Inc has fewer employees than the Cherry farming median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. 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 8.0 5.3 3 0 0
2023 7.2 7.2 2 0 0
2022 3.5 3.5 3 0 0
2020 15.1 10.4 11 2 0
2019 0.1 0.0 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111339 · OR · The Dalles

90 Cherry farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 64 employers in The Dalles, OR · 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 Long Ranch LLC 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prima Wawona - South Ranches 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schanno-McClaskey Orchards, Inc. 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR K & K Land and Management, LLC 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fessler Nursery Company 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE UNIVERSAL SEED LLC 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sunnyview (Shared Services + MVS Admin + Warehouse) 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pennington Seed - Seed Processing Lebanon 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Orchard View, Inc. 348 FTE
CITY-NEAR 701-00372 258 FTE
CITY-NEAR OREGON VETERANS HOME 207 FTE
CITY-NEAR McClaskey Orchards LLC 181 FTE
NAT-TCR NEH Greenhouse LLC 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 0559 - Indianapolis IN DC 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Indevco, Inc., d/b/a Mid America Truss 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Rosina Food Products - Clinton 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Erie Materials Scranton 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE State Building Products 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 4945 - Millbrook Rd NC 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Emeritus Corporation 49 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, 2020, 2019. 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.