Blackberry farming · Arkansas

Ritter Production Farms, Inc.

Judsonia, AR · ~34 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ritter Production Farms, Inc. runs at 300% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Blackberry farming workplace, earning a grade F.

Ritter Production Farms, Inc.: 13.5 TCR = 300% of Blackberry farming BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ritter Production Farms, Inc. safety composite

Ritter Production Farms, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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 13.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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%).

TCR Δ

−30.4

2019→2021

Ritter Production Farms, Inc. injury rate improved

Ritter Production Farms, Inc.'s TCR fell 30.4 from 31.8 in 2019 to 1.4 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 31.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=31.8 · 2020=7.3 · 2021=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111334 · Judsonia, AR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.5 · 300% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK P2
  • PHOTO Joseph J. White, Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Joseph J. White, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ritter Production Farms, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ritter Production Farms, Inc. averages 13.5 TCR (300% of the Blackberry farming BLS benchmark).

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

Ritter Production Farms, Inc. TCR series: 2019=31.8 · 2020=7.3 · 2021=1.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Ritter Production Farms, Inc. falls in its industry

41 Blackberry farming establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Ritter Production Farms, Inc. (34 employees, TCR 13.5) 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 Ritter Production Farms, Inc.
Ritter Production Farms, Inc. (34 employees, TCR 13.5) among 25 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Ritter Production Farms, Inc. has fewer employees than the Blackberry 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
2021 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2020 7.3 0.0 1 2 0
2019 31.8 12.7 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111334 · AR · Judsonia

41 Blackberry farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 4 employers in Judsonia, AR · 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 Joseph J. White, Inc 13.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR R.T. Allen & Sons, Inc. 13.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Habelman Bros. Company 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bloomingdale MI Facility 11.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE SILOAM HATCHERY 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE McClendon, Mann & Felton Gin Co., Inc 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE York Pecan Co 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heber Springs 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oakdale Nursing Facility 136 FTE
CITY-NEAR Judsonia 127 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ritter Production Farms (Berry Farm) 85 FTE
NAT-TCR Malaga Shipping 13.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Taylor Heating Inc. 13.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Cambridge Place Nursing Home 13.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1924 13.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Blue Sea Beach Hotel 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Inc. 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Monson Nicholas, Inc. 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advanced Cutting Systems 34 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: 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.