Honey bee production · California

Strachan Apiaries Inc

Yuba City, CA · ~23 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Strachan Apiaries Inc runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Honey bee production workplace, earning a grade C.

Strachan Apiaries Inc: 4.0 TCR = 89% of Honey bee production BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Strachan Apiaries Inc safety composite

Strachan Apiaries Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

Fatalities
C 0

Safer than 55% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Strachan Apiaries Inc: 0.0 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

Strachan Apiaries Inc's TCR rose 8.0 from 0.0 in 2023 to 8.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112910 · Yuba City, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 89% of ind

  • DART 8.0 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO Olivarez Honey Bees
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Olivarez Honey Bees (0.0 TCR gap)

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Strachan Apiaries Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Strachan Apiaries Inc averages 4.0 TCR (89% of the Honey bee production BLS benchmark).

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

Strachan Apiaries Inc TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=8 · BLS 4.5

Where Strachan Apiaries Inc falls in its industry

11 Honey bee production establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 Honey bee production employers in California.

Strachan Apiaries Inc (23 employees, TCR 4.0) among 9 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.1 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 10 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 050100150 024681012 Average employees Total Case Rate Tauzer Apiaries IncwarehouseROSSMAN APIARIES LLCBZ-Bee PollinationOlivarez Honey BeesCarys Honey Farms, Inc.Bees FloridaBees MinnesotaWonderful Bees FloridaStrachan Apiaries Inc
Strachan Apiaries Inc (23 employees, TCR 4.0) among 9 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Strachan Apiaries Inc has fewer employees than the Honey bee production median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 8.0 8.0 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112910 · CA · Yuba City

11 Honey bee production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 123 employers in Yuba City, 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 Olivarez Honey Bees 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR BZ-Bee Pollination 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bees Minnesota 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE James Diedrich Farms 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-Fanucchi Farms,LLC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE KAN2 - 04 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kyer Farms 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Yuba City Unified School District 2,348 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sunsweet Growers 660 FTE
CITY-NEAR RMZ Farm Labor Services 609 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1903 462 FTE
NAT-TCR ABF Freight 120 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bradley Caldwell Inc 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR DEN 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Super Giant Landover Store 2304 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1st FP Austin, LLC 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oak Grove 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Andover-Haverhill-Ma29 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE S&W Cabinets, Inc. Commercial 23 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. 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.