Pistachio farming · California

Touchstone Pistachio, Co.

Fresno, CA · ~207 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Touchstone Pistachio, Co. runs at 306% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pistachio farming workplace, earning a grade F.

Touchstone Pistachio, Co.: 13.8 TCR = 306% of Pistachio farming BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Touchstone Pistachio, Co. safety composite

Touchstone Pistachio, Co. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

Touchstone Pistachio, Co.: 4.1 → 23.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 23.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.44× in 2024

Touchstone Pistachio, Co.'s TCR rose 19.3 from 4.1 in 2023 to 23.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111335 · Fresno, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 13.8 · 306% of ind

  • DART 6.1 DART
  • RANK #101/107
  • PHOTO Maricopa Orchards, LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~207 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Maricopa Orchards, LLC (0.7 TCR gap)

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Touchstone Pistachio, Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Touchstone Pistachio, Co. averages 13.8 TCR (306% of the Pistachio farming BLS benchmark).

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

Touchstone Pistachio, Co. TCR series: 2023=4.1 · 2024=23.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Touchstone Pistachio, Co. falls in its industry

120 Pistachio farming establishments

Safer than 6% 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 #101 safest of 107 Pistachio farming employers in California.

Touchstone Pistachio, Co. (207 employees, TCR 13.8) 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 Touchstone Pistachio, Co.
Touchstone Pistachio, Co. (207 employees, TCR 13.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Touchstone Pistachio, Co. has more employees than the Pistachio 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 23.4 6.1 23 0 0
2023 4.1 1.8 11 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111335 · CA · Fresno

120 Pistachio farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 981 employers in Fresno, 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 Maricopa Orchards, LLC 14.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR PISTACHIO HARVESTING, INC. 15.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR C. R CRAIN AND SONS, INC 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Charter Oaks 16.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE CA-Ontario S/C 207 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction 207 FTE
STATE-SIZE Veteran Pipeline Construction 207 FTE
STATE-SIZE DFA FLUID - CITY OF INDUSTRY-NORTH 207 FTE
CITY-NEAR County of Fresno 7,553 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ag Force LLC 6,430 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Regional Medical Ctr 5,549 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Regional Medical Center 4,921 FTE
NAT-TCR Coho Distributing LLC Poulsbo 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Hawthorne Inn of Peoria 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Cook Portable Warehouses (Cobden) 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR MJV Logistics 13.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Haven Homes 207 FTE
NAT-SIZE Johnson Contractors Inc. 207 FTE
NAT-SIZE Walters Gardens Inc 207 FTE
NAT-SIZE FTC Solar 207 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.