Tree nut farming · California

Wonderful Orchards-New Columbia

Firebaugh, CA · ~74 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wonderful Orchards-New Columbia runs at 24% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Tree nut farming workplace, earning a grade A.

Wonderful Orchards-New Columbia: 1.1 TCR = 24% of Tree nut farming BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wonderful Orchards-New Columbia safety composite

Wonderful Orchards-New Columbia scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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%).

Wonderful Orchards-New Columbia held a steady TCR band

Wonderful Orchards-New Columbia's TCR held near 0.1 from 1.0 in 2017 to 1.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 2.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.0 · 2018=2.2 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 24% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #7/107
  • PHOTO Oxford Farms, Inc.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Oxford Farms, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wonderful Orchards-New Columbia in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wonderful Orchards-New Columbia averages 1.1 TCR (24% of the Tree nut farming BLS benchmark).

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

Wonderful Orchards-New Columbia TCR series: 2017=1 · 2018=2.2 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Wonderful Orchards-New Columbia falls in its industry

120 Tree nut farming establishments

Safer than 94% 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 #7 safest of 107 Tree nut farming employers in California.

Wonderful Orchards-New Columbia (74 employees, TCR 1.1) 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 Wonderful Orchards-New Columbia
Wonderful Orchards-New Columbia (74 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Wonderful Orchards-New Columbia has more employees than the Tree nut farming median and a lower 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 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 2.2 0.0 2 0 0
2017 1.0 1.0 1 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 Oxford Farms, Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Valley 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR HAYES RANCH INC 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Columbia 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Apricot Lane Farms 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central California Almond Growers (Kerman) 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jose Jesus Garcia Jr 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE elbow creek ag, inc. 74 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 Jacksonville NC Yard 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR ADI, Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR HMA 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Texas Lutheran Univ 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE KCR Inc dba Petra Contracting 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elementary School 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goodwill Tampa HUB 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Standard Brands R&D Center 74 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, 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.