Fresh meats merchant wholesalers · California

50th

Vernon, CA · ~181 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

50th runs at 517% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fresh meats merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

50th: 11.4 TCR = 517% of Fresh meats merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

50th safety composite

50th scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 23% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.5

2020→2024

50th injury rate improved

50th's TCR fell 4.5 from 11.3 in 2020 to 6.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 50.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=11.3 · 2022=16.2 · 2023=50.6 · 2024=6.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424470 · Vernon, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.4 · 517% of ind

  • DART 6.4 DART
  • RANK #17/22
  • PHOTO CEDI San Jose
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 61 inj
  • SIZE ~181 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CEDI San Jose (0.2 TCR gap)

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50th in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 50th averages 11.4 TCR (517% of the Fresh meats merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

50th TCR series: 2020=11.3 · 2022=16.2 · 2023=50.6 · 2024=6.7 · BLS 2.2

Where 50th falls in its industry

162 Fresh meats merchant wholesale establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 22 Fresh meats merchant wholesale employers in California.

50th (181 employees, TCR 11.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate 50th
50th (181 employees, TCR 11.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.8

50th has more employees than the Fresh meats merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 6.7 6.4 12 10 0
2023 50.6 39.0 16 19 0
2022 16.2 15.1 10 36 0
2020 11.3 11.0 23 18 1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424470 · CA · Vernon

162 Fresh meats merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 146 employers in Vernon, 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 CEDI San Jose 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Portillo's Hot Dogs, LLC #920 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CEDI Houston 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manchester Packing Co., Vernon 12.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE VISALIA CITRUS PACKING GROUP INC WOODLAKE 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aguilera Labor Contractor 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mission - Skills Training - 01 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE MaryAnn's Baking Company Inc. 181 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods, Inc. - Vernon, CA 1,633 FTE
CITY-NEAR GRANDE VISTA (CAGVS) 1,333 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAGVS - GRANDE VISTA 1,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods - Vernon 984 FTE
NAT-TCR Steel Building Components, LLC 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Seattle Parks and Recreation 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Kre-Bsl Husky Forge Hill Operation LLC 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bridges by Epoch at Pembroke 11.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Richard McNay, Inc. 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Knoxville Parks & Recreation 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orem City Recreation Department 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE One World Logistics of America Inc. 181 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, 2020. 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.