Tree nut farming · California

Valley Ventures, Inc.

Firebaugh, CA · ~63 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Valley Ventures, Inc. runs at 91% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Tree nut farming workplace, earning a grade C.

Valley Ventures, Inc.: 4.1 TCR = 91% of Tree nut farming BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valley Ventures, Inc. safety composite

Valley Ventures, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

Valley Ventures, Inc.: 2.4 → 5.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 5.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.8× in 2018

Valley Ventures, Inc.'s TCR rose 3.4 from 2.4 in 2017 to 5.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111335 · Firebaugh, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.1 · 91% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #53/107
  • PHOTO Central Valley Ag Ma…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Central Valley Ag Management, LLC. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Valley Ventures, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Valley Ventures, Inc. averages 4.1 TCR (91% of the Tree nut farming BLS benchmark).

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

Valley Ventures, Inc. TCR series: 2017=2.4 · 2018=5.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Valley Ventures, Inc. falls in its industry

120 Tree nut farming establishments

Safer than 48% 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 #53 safest of 107 Tree nut farming employers in California.

Valley Ventures, Inc. (63 employees, TCR 4.1) 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 Valley Ventures, Inc.
Valley Ventures, Inc. (63 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Valley Ventures, Inc. has more employees than the Tree nut 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
2018 5.8 3.3 7 0 0
2017 2.4 2.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111335 · CA · Firebaugh

120 Tree nut farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 37 employers in Firebaugh, 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 Central Valley Ag Management, LLC. 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bob and Susan Vanella 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crain Marketing, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4R Farming, Inc. 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE VF - Lodi 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goossen Farms Inc 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE NGW, LLC 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Case Vander Eyk Dairy 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR S.H. SMITH FARMS INC 1,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR TomaTek 629 FTE
CITY-NEAR Peri & Sons Farms of California, LLC 299 FTE
CITY-NEAR I.S.A. CONTRACTING SERVICES, INC. 264 FTE
NAT-TCR dow circle 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Felton02 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Richardson Methodist Medical Center 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Cortacre Breaker Plant 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tops #400 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reserve 1 Manitou 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Toyota Tewksbury 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rockwood Facility 63 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: 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.