Hop farming · Washington

Puterbaugh Farms of WA LLC

Mabton, WA · ~85 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Puterbaugh Farms of WA LLC runs at 70% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Hop farming workplace, earning a grade B.

Puterbaugh Farms of WA LLC: 3.1 TCR = 70% of Hop farming BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Puterbaugh Farms of WA LLC safety composite

Puterbaugh Farms of WA LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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

Puterbaugh Farms of WA LLC: 3.1 → 51.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 51.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Puterbaugh Farms of WA LLC's TCR rose 48.1 from 3.1 in 2018 to 51.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111998 · Mabton, WA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.1 · 70% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/16
  • PHOTO Tangent
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tangent (0.2 TCR gap)

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Puterbaugh Farms of WA LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Puterbaugh Farms of WA LLC averages 3.1 TCR (70% of the Hop farming BLS benchmark).

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

Puterbaugh Farms of WA LLC TCR series: 2018=3.1 · 2024=51.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Puterbaugh Farms of WA LLC falls in its industry

128 Hop farming establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 16 Hop farming employers in Washington.

Puterbaugh Farms of WA LLC (85 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 64 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Puterbaugh Farms of WA LLC
Puterbaugh Farms of WA LLC (85 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 64 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Puterbaugh Farms of WA LLC has more employees than the Hop farming median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 51.2 0.0 2 1 0
2018 3.1 2.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111998 · WA · Mabton

128 Hop farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 5 employers in Mabton, 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 Tangent 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Heirloom Collective, Inc. Bernardston 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Environmental Seeds West, LLC 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ioka Farms 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sarbanand Farms- WA 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE PSE, SQE - Snoqualmie Center 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Inland Construction & Development Co. 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE McBride Construction Resources 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR Skagit Horticulture - MB 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sagebrush Ranches LLC 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bio-Gro, Inc. 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Veldhuis Dairy LLC 44 FTE
NAT-TCR Lake Bluff 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR SMC-Chatt 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR JBM Underground 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Crothall Laundry Services, Rome, GA 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Keeler Construction 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arista Healthcare 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Edmore, Mi 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Times Supermarket - Kaimuki 85 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, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.