Blueberry farming · Washington

Sarbanand Farms- WA

Sumas, WA · ~85 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sarbanand Farms- WA runs at 113% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Blueberry farming workplace, earning a grade C.

Sarbanand Farms- WA: 5.1 TCR = 113% of Blueberry farming BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sarbanand Farms- WA safety composite

Sarbanand Farms- WA scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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

−3.0

2017→2024

Sarbanand Farms- WA injury rate improved

Sarbanand Farms- WA's TCR fell 3.0 from 3.8 in 2017 to 0.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 11.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.8 · 2019=11.2 · 2020=4.5 · 2021=8.4 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111334 · Sumas, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.1 · 113% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #1/7
  • PHOTO Alma IQF Facility
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Alma IQF Facility (0.1 TCR gap)

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Sarbanand Farms- WA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sarbanand Farms- WA averages 5.1 TCR (113% of the Blueberry farming BLS benchmark).

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

Sarbanand Farms- WA TCR series: 2017=3.8 · 2019=11.2 · 2020=4.5 · 2021=8.4 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=0.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Sarbanand Farms- WA falls in its industry

41 Blueberry farming establishments

Safer than 56% 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 #1 safest of 7 Blueberry farming employers in Washington.

Sarbanand Farms- WA (85 employees, TCR 5.1) 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 Sarbanand Farms- WA
Sarbanand Farms- WA (85 employees, TCR 5.1) among 25 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Sarbanand Farms- WA has more employees than the Blueberry farming median and a lower 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 0.8 0.6 3 0 0
2023 3.5 0.0 1 0 0
2022 3.3 0.0 1 0 0
2021 8.4 8.4 4 0 0
2020 4.5 4.5 1 0 0
2019 11.2 11.2 1 0 0
2017 3.8 0.6 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111334 · WA · Sumas

41 Blueberry farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 3 employers in Sumas, 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 Alma IQF Facility 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Breyman Farms Inc 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chapala Berry Farms 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Decker Farms, Inc. 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Puterbaugh Farms of WA LLC 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 IKO Pacific 121 FTE
CITY-NEAR Interfor CedarPrime, Inc 25 FTE
NAT-TCR Lincoln Park Boring Co. 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Rouses Market #46 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bradley Graphic Solutions 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR General Foundry Service Corporation 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Alfagomma America Inc. 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Admiral Pkg 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE ABW Columbia 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ebert Inc 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, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017. 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.