Fruit and tree nut combination farming · Georgia

Southern Orchards Management

Fort Valley, GA · ~235 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern Orchards Management runs at 52% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Fruit and tree nut combination farming workplace, earning a grade B.

Southern Orchards Management: 2.4 TCR = 52% of Fruit and tree nut combination farming BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Orchards Management safety composite

Southern Orchards Management scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 2.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−4.0

2018→2023

Southern Orchards Management injury rate improved

Southern Orchards Management's TCR fell 4.0 from 4.6 in 2018 to 0.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=4.6 · 2019=3.3 · 2020=1.8 · 2022=1.5 · 2023=0.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111336 · Fort Valley, GA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 52% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK P91
  • PHOTO Juan Briones
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 37 inj
  • SIZE ~235 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Juan Briones (0.1 TCR gap)

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Southern Orchards Management in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern Orchards Management averages 2.4 TCR (52% of the Fruit and tree nut combination farming BLS benchmark).

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

Southern Orchards Management TCR series: 2018=4.6 · 2019=3.3 · 2020=1.8 · 2022=1.5 · 2023=0.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Southern Orchards Management falls in its industry

65 Fruit and tree nut combination establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Southern Orchards Management (235 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Southern Orchards Management
Southern Orchards Management (235 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Southern Orchards Management has more employees than the Fruit and tree nut combination farming median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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
2023 0.6 0.3 2 0 0
2022 1.5 1.5 5 0 0
2020 1.8 1.8 6 0 0
2019 3.3 2.7 11 0 0
2018 4.6 3.9 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111336 · GA · Fort Valley

65 Fruit and tree nut combination farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 24 employers in Fort Valley, GA · 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 Juan Briones 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bains Orchards Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maywood Farms 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fruit Harvest Family, Inc. 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE VILLA RICA NATIONAL (2) 235 FTE
STATE-SIZE Flexsteel 235 FTE
STATE-SIZE Norcross 235 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2121 - Marietta East 235 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Bird Body Company 2,170 FTE
CITY-NEAR PEARSON FARM 150 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Valley, Georgia 138 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southern Flavor Farms 129 FTE
NAT-TCR Eldora Specialty Care 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR ILAWC Champaign 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Rend Lake College 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Goochland Family YMCA 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bauer Compressors, Inc 235 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bethesda Hospital (HealthEast) 235 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gudenkauf 235 FTE
NAT-SIZE CVR Crude Transportation 235 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: 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.