Tree nut farming · California

Zipper Farms, Inc.

Visalia, CA · ~62 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Zipper Farms, Inc. runs at 46% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Tree nut farming workplace, earning a grade A.

Zipper Farms, Inc.: 2.1 TCR = 46% of Tree nut farming BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Zipper Farms, Inc. safety composite

Zipper Farms, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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%).

Zipper Farms, Inc. held a steady TCR band

Zipper Farms, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.3 from 2.3 in 2022 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.3 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 2.1 · 46% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #26/107
  • PHOTO Mike Woolf Farming LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mike Woolf Farming LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Zipper Farms, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Zipper Farms, Inc. averages 2.1 TCR (46% of the Tree nut farming BLS benchmark).

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

Zipper Farms, Inc. TCR series: 2022=2.3 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Zipper Farms, Inc. falls in its industry

120 Tree nut farming establishments

Safer than 76% 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 #26 safest of 107 Tree nut farming employers in California.

Zipper Farms, Inc. (62 employees, TCR 2.1) 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 Zipper Farms, Inc.
Zipper Farms, Inc. (62 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Zipper Farms, Inc. 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 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2022 2.3 2.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111335 · CA · Visalia

120 Tree nut farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 349 employers in Visalia, 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 Mike Woolf Farming LLC 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hester Orchards Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roche Brothers Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR workers 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Crain Marketing, Inc. 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maricopa Orchards, LLC 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE WESTLAND ORCHIDS 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sunshine Floral, LLC 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kaweah Delta Health Care District 4,961 FTE
CITY-NEAR Paragon Personnel 2,129 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 194 1,485 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 473 1,479 FTE
NAT-TCR Dominion Athens, LLC 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Oberg Medical Finishing 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Fieldale Farms - Cornelia Rendering Plant 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR ZEKS Compressed Air Solutions 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bainbridge Island Health & Rehabilitation 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Steel 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shamrock Electric Co., Inc. 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nissan Dallas Parts Distribution Center 62 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, 2022. 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.