Tree nut farming · California

Schafer Ranch, Inc

Madera, CA · ~71 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Schafer Ranch, Inc runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Tree nut farming workplace, earning a grade C.

Schafer Ranch, Inc: 4.8 TCR = 106% of Tree nut farming BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Schafer Ranch, Inc safety composite

Schafer Ranch, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.5

2017→2024

Schafer Ranch, Inc injury rate improved

Schafer Ranch, Inc's TCR fell 0.5 from 5.6 in 2017 to 5.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.6 · 2018=2.3 · 2019=4.9 · 2020=7.5 · 2021=4.0 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=7.3 · 2024=5.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111335 · Madera, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.8 · 106% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #61/107
  • PHOTO CHOWCHILLA RANCHES
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CHOWCHILLA RANCHES (0.0 TCR gap)

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Schafer Ranch, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Schafer Ranch, Inc averages 4.8 TCR (106% of the Tree nut farming BLS benchmark).

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

Schafer Ranch, Inc TCR series: 2017=5.6 · 2018=2.3 · 2019=4.9 · 2020=7.5 · 2021=4 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=7.3 · 2024=5.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Schafer Ranch, Inc falls in its industry

120 Tree nut farming establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #61 safest of 107 Tree nut farming employers in California.

Schafer Ranch, Inc (71 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Schafer Ranch, Inc
Schafer Ranch, Inc (71 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Schafer Ranch, Inc has more employees than the Tree nut farming median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 5.1 3.1 3 2 0
2023 7.3 4.2 1 6 0
2022 1.4 0.0 1 0 0
2021 4.0 1.3 3 0 0
2020 7.5 2.5 6 0 0
2019 4.9 1.2 3 1 0
2018 2.3 1.1 2 0 0
2017 5.6 1.1 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111335 · CA · Madera

120 Tree nut farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 162 employers in Madera, CA · 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 CHOWCHILLA RANCHES 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lester Neufeld & Son 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stackhouse Brothers 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Holland Farms III 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE M Pineda Farming Co 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE AgSource Services, LLC 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE R & J Dondero Inc 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE SummerSweet Farms Inc. 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pacific Farm Management Inc 17,529 FTE
CITY-NEAR Petroff Ag Services Inc 2,253 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 170 1,485 FTE
CITY-NEAR County of Madera 1,393 FTE
NAT-TCR Quadd Building Systems 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Porter Logistics LTD 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Reser's Fine Foods, Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 1832 Swn8 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Central Semiconductor, LLC 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE BioFit Engineered Products 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Gaines Seed Inc 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE California Pacific Technical Services, LLC 71 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, 2018, 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.