Berry (except strawberry) farming · Washington

Rader Farms, Inc. - Farm side

Lynden, WA · ~155 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rader Farms, Inc. - Farm side runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Berry (except strawberry) farming workplace, earning a grade D.

Rader Farms, Inc. - Farm side: 5.8 TCR = 130% of Berry (except strawberry) farming BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rader Farms, Inc. - Farm side safety composite

Rader Farms, Inc. - Farm side scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Rader Farms, Inc. - Farm side: 4.1 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.86× in 2024

Rader Farms, Inc. - Farm side's TCR rose 1.9 from 4.1 in 2019 to 6.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111334 · Lynden, WA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 130% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #2/7
  • PHOTO Sun Berry Sales, Inc.
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~155 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sun Berry Sales, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Rader Farms, Inc. - Farm side in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rader Farms, Inc. - Farm side averages 5.8 TCR (130% of the Berry (except strawberry) farming BLS benchmark).

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

Rader Farms, Inc. - Farm side TCR series: 2019=4.1 · 2020=5.1 · 2021=8 · 2022=6 · 2024=6 · BLS 4.5

Where Rader Farms, Inc. - Farm side falls in its industry

41 Berry (except strawberry) farm establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 7 Berry (except strawberry) farm employers in Washington.

Rader Farms, Inc. - Farm side (155 employees, TCR 5.8) among 25 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 5.6 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 26 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Rader Farms, Inc. - Farm side
Rader Farms, Inc. - Farm side (155 employees, TCR 5.8) among 25 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Rader Farms, Inc. - Farm side has more employees than the Berry (except strawberry) farming median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 6.0 5.0 6 0 0
2022 6.0 3.6 5 0 0
2021 8.0 2.7 6 0 0
2020 5.1 1.3 4 0 0
2019 4.1 2.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111334 · WA · Lynden

41 Berry (except strawberry) farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 52 employers in Lynden, 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 Sun Berry Sales, Inc. 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sakuma Bros Farms 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gabriel Farms Inc 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maberry Packing LLC 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Apex Steel, Inc. 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE Evergreen Refrigeration 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE Seattle 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE 070-Seattle 155 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lynden Door, Inc. 515 FTE
CITY-NEAR Enfield Farms Inc 276 FTE
CITY-NEAR Christian Health Care Center 203 FTE
CITY-NEAR Axiom Division 7 198 FTE
NAT-TCR Standard Steel LLC 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 151 - Frederick MD 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR COD017 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sewell Motor Express 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Van Metre Investment Properties 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE Baptist Health Medical Center - Stuttgart 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nordfab LLC 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woodgrain Millwork 155 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, 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.