Almond hulling and shelling · California

Shafter Wasco Ginning Co., Inc.

Shafter, CA · ~19 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shafter Wasco Ginning Co., Inc. runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Almond hulling and shelling workplace, earning a grade D.

Shafter Wasco Ginning Co., Inc.: 5.5 TCR = 122% of Almond hulling and shelling BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shafter Wasco Ginning Co., Inc. safety composite

Shafter Wasco Ginning Co., Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

−9.0

2017→2023

Shafter Wasco Ginning Co., Inc. injury rate improved

Shafter Wasco Ginning Co., Inc.'s TCR fell 9.0 from 9.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 10.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=9.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=4.7 · 2020=9.3 · 2021=5.0 · 2022=10.4 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115114 · Shafter, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 122% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #125/236
  • PHOTO OCEAN SPRAY CRANBERR…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OCEAN SPRAY CRANBERRIES INC. - CHATSWORTH RECEIVING (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shafter Wasco Ginning Co., Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shafter Wasco Ginning Co., Inc. averages 5.5 TCR (122% of the Almond hulling and shelling BLS benchmark).

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

Shafter Wasco Ginning Co., Inc. TCR series: 2017=9 · 2018=0 · 2019=4.7 · 2020=9.3 · 2021=5 · 2022=10.4 · 2023=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Shafter Wasco Ginning Co., Inc. falls in its industry

666 Almond hulling and shelling establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #125 safest of 236 Almond hulling and shelling employers in California.

Shafter Wasco Ginning Co., Inc. (19 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 Shafter Wasco Ginning Co., Inc.
Shafter Wasco Ginning Co., Inc. (19 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Shafter Wasco Ginning Co., Inc. has fewer employees than the Almond hulling and shelling 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 10.4 5.2 2 0 0
2021 5.0 5.0 1 0 0
2020 9.3 9.3 2 0 0
2019 4.7 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 9.0 4.5 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · CA · Shafter

666 Almond hulling and shelling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 66 employers in Shafter, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR OCEAN SPRAY CRANBERRIES INC. - CHATSWORTH RECEIVING 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Black Gold Farms - EGF 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Podesta Packing LLC 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SANTA BARBARA FARMS, LLC 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE A. OSEGUERA CO., INC. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE TEIXEIRA FARMS INC 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Golden R, Inc. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE PEDRAZZI FARMS 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - BFL2 1,819 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0593 - Shafter CA DC 1,587 FTE
CITY-NEAR Central Valley Distribution Center CVDC 1,395 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0593 - Bakersfield DC 1,179 FTE
NAT-TCR Builders Choice Lumber LLC 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Nisbet Corporate 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Brotoloc North 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR The Heritage at Sagewood 5.5 TCR

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: 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.