Apple orchards · Pennsylvania

R & L Orchard Co.

Gardners, PA · ~49 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

R & L Orchard Co. runs at 207% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Apple orchards workplace, earning a grade F.

R & L Orchard Co.: 9.3 TCR = 207% of Apple orchards BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R & L Orchard Co. safety composite

R & L Orchard Co. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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).

F

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

R & L Orchard Co.: 4.7 → 21.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 21.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2024

R & L Orchard Co.'s TCR rose 16.6 from 4.7 in 2019 to 21.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111331 · Gardners, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.3 · 207% of ind

  • DART 6.4 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO CUSTOM ORCHARDS
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CUSTOM ORCHARDS (0.0 TCR gap)

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R & L Orchard Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R & L Orchard Co. averages 9.3 TCR (207% of the Apple orchards BLS benchmark).

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

R & L Orchard Co. TCR series: 2019=4.7 · 2020=9.5 · 2021=4.3 · 2022=6.7 · 2023=9.4 · 2024=21.3 · BLS 4.5

Where R & L Orchard Co. falls in its industry

90 Apple orchards establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 7 Apple orchards employers in Pennsylvania.

R & L Orchard Co. (49 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 6.6 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate R & L Orchard Co.
R & L Orchard Co. (49 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 6.6

R & L Orchard Co. has fewer employees than the Apple orchards median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.6. 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 21.3 6.4 9 1 0
2023 9.4 7.6 5 0 0
2022 6.7 1.7 4 0 0
2021 4.3 1.4 3 0 0
2020 9.5 4.8 6 0 0
2019 4.7 3.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111331 · PA · Gardners

90 Apple orchards employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 8 employers in Gardners, PA · 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 CUSTOM ORCHARDS 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baker Produce - Goosehill I 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Champlain Orchards 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbia Valley Fruit, LLC 9.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bonnie Brae Fruit Farms, Inc. 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vallorani Mushrooms 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Story of PA- Smithfield (AWH) 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main Office 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rice Fruit Company 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Gardners 146 FTE
CITY-NEAR John B. Peters Inc. 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR O'Malley Wood Products 56 FTE
NAT-TCR Town of Bennington, VT 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Denver,CO - 434 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Community Rehabilitation Hospital South 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Allen Steele Company 9.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fortress Nutrition, LLC 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Indiana Bridge, Inc. 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oks-Inc-the Oaks 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metal Arts Machine Co LLC 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, 2021, 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.