Pear farming · Oregon

Walter Wells & Sons LLC

Hood River, OR · ~53 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Walter Wells & Sons LLC runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pear farming workplace, earning a grade D.

Walter Wells & Sons LLC: 5.5 TCR = 122% of Pear farming BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Walter Wells & Sons LLC safety composite

Walter Wells & Sons LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Walter Wells & Sons LLC: 3.5 → 5.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 15.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.72× in 2024

Walter Wells & Sons LLC's TCR rose 2.5 from 3.5 in 2017 to 5.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 15.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111339 · Hood River, OR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 122% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #9/22
  • PHOTO Prima Wawona - East …
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Prima Wawona - East Ranches (0.0 TCR gap)

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Walter Wells & Sons LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Walter Wells & Sons LLC averages 5.5 TCR (122% of the Pear farming BLS benchmark).

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

Walter Wells & Sons LLC TCR series: 2017=3.5 · 2018=3.2 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=3.9 · 2021=8.1 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=15.4 · 2024=5.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Walter Wells & Sons LLC falls in its industry

90 Pear farming establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 22 Pear farming employers in Oregon.

Walter Wells & Sons LLC (53 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 6.2 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Walter Wells & Sons LLC
Walter Wells & Sons LLC (53 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Walter Wells & Sons LLC has fewer employees than the Pear farming median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. 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 5.9 4.0 3 0 0
2023 15.4 3.9 4 0 0
2022 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2021 8.1 6.5 5 0 0
2020 3.9 3.9 2 0 0
2019 2.3 2.3 3 1 0
2018 3.2 1.6 2 0 0
2017 3.5 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111339 · OR · Hood River

90 Pear farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 55 employers in Hood River, OR · 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 Prima Wawona - East Ranches 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dahle Orchards LLC 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alta Vista Farms, LP. 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR MS Mango Farm, LLC 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Noble Mountain Tree Farm 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Klamath Falls, OR 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sunwest One, Inc. dba SunWest Builders 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Public Works (old) 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2252-00000560 528 FTE
CITY-NEAR OR362 PROVIDENCE HOOD RIVER MEMORIAL HOSP-HOOD 439 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hood River IG 392 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cardinal IG -Hood River IG 366 FTE
NAT-TCR Idabel Home Ownership Center/Transit Office 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Fire Station 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR The Broadway-Columbia, A DoubleTree By Hilton 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Indiana University Health Paoli Hospital 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sunset GV LLC - dba Wildfire Casino & Lanes 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Station 94 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Washington DC HVC 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE QFP 53 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.