Seed processing, post-harvest for propagation · Pennsylvania

Rice Fruit Company

Gardners, PA · ~167 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Rice Fruit Company runs at 156% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Seed processing, post-harvest for propagation workplace, earning a grade D.

Rice Fruit Company: 7.0 TCR = 156% of Seed processing, post-harvest for propagation BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rice Fruit Company safety composite

Rice Fruit Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

11/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

Rice Fruit Company: 3.8 → 9.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.09× in 2024

Rice Fruit Company's TCR rose 5.5 from 3.8 in 2019 to 9.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115114 · Gardners, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.0 · 156% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK #9/10
  • PHOTO CRESCENT FRUIT & VEG…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 75 inj
  • SIZE ~167 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CRESCENT FRUIT & VEGETABLE, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rice Fruit Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rice Fruit Company averages 7.0 TCR (156% of the Seed processing, post-harvest for propagation BLS benchmark).

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

Rice Fruit Company TCR series: 2019=3.8 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=6 · 2022=9 · 2023=9.1 · 2024=9.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Rice Fruit Company falls in its industry

666 Seed processing, post-harvest establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 10 Seed processing, post-harvest employers in Pennsylvania.

Rice Fruit Company (167 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Rice Fruit Company
Rice Fruit Company (167 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Rice Fruit Company has more employees than the Seed processing, post-harvest for propag median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 9.3 7.7 17 0 0
2023 9.1 7.5 17 0 0
2022 9.0 5.0 18 0 0
2021 6.0 3.8 10 1 1
2020 4.8 2.4 8 0 0
2019 3.8 1.3 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · PA · Gardners

666 Seed processing, post-harvest for propagation 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 CRESCENT FRUIT & VEGETABLE, LLC 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bloomington Plant 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Berberian Nut Company 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Veg-Land, Inc. 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brothers 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wellington Power Corporation 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA PA Cranberry Township 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clark Service Group 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
CITY-NEAR Bonnie Brae Fruit Farms, Inc. 49 FTE
NAT-TCR Mj's Labor Services Inc. 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 1755 - Layton 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR MD620 Baltimore WH 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR R31 Nashville TN 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE McRae Footwear Division- Wadeville 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aksarben/ARS 8726 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sutton OSB 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bouma Corporation: Grand Rapids 167 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.