Apple orchards · Washington

Taggares Fruit Company

Burbank, WA · ~183 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Taggares Fruit Company runs at 171% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Apple orchards workplace, earning a grade D.

Taggares Fruit Company: 7.7 TCR = 171% of Apple orchards BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Taggares Fruit Company safety composite

Taggares Fruit Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.27 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%).

Rising injury rate

Taggares Fruit Company: 5.9 → 6.8 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 10.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.68× in 2022

Taggares Fruit Company's TCR rose 0.9 from 5.9 in 2018 to 6.8 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 10.6 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111331 · Burbank, WA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.7 · 171% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #26/51
  • PHOTO Firewood
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 58 inj
  • SIZE ~183 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Firewood (0.1 TCR gap)

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Taggares Fruit Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Taggares Fruit Company averages 7.7 TCR (171% of the Apple orchards BLS benchmark).

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

Taggares Fruit Company TCR series: 2018=5.9 · 2019=10.6 · 2020=8.3 · 2021=6.9 · 2022=6.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Taggares Fruit Company falls in its industry

90 Apple orchards establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 51 Apple orchards employers in Washington.

Taggares Fruit Company (183 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 6.6 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Taggares Fruit Company
Taggares Fruit Company (183 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Taggares Fruit Company has more employees than the Apple orchards median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.6. 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
2022 6.8 5.3 9 0 0
2021 6.9 6.0 14 0 0
2020 8.3 6.5 14 0 0
2019 10.6 10.6 14 0 0
2018 5.9 4.2 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111331 · WA · Burbank

90 Apple orchards employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 10 employers in Burbank, 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 Firewood 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oasis Farm's Inc. 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Orchards 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR DG ORCHARDS LLC 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE SAS North District 183 FTE
STATE-SIZE Compass General Construction 1 LLC 183 FTE
STATE-SIZE Graham Construction & Management 183 FTE
STATE-SIZE Talking Rain Beverage Company 183 FTE
CITY-NEAR CREST Logistics-WA 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwest Wine Services 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR L&L Feedlot Pasco - Burbank 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harris Rebar Columbia Basin - Washington 74 FTE
NAT-TCR Tops #226 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR BakeFresh Colorado 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 0422 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookfield Wire Company, Inc. 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE ETR Service LTD 183 FTE
NAT-SIZE Siembra Finca FVE LLC 183 FTE
NAT-SIZE SteelCoast LLC, Company 183 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atkins Inc Columbia 183 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: 2022, 2021, 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.