Fertilizer manufacturing · California

AB Plant - Lathrop

Lathrop, CA · ~148 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AB Plant - Lathrop runs at 172% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fertilizer manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

AB Plant - Lathrop: 5.7 TCR = 172% of Fertilizer manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AB Plant - Lathrop safety composite

AB Plant - Lathrop scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−1.5

2020→2021

AB Plant - Lathrop injury rate improved

AB Plant - Lathrop's TCR fell 1.5 from 6.4 in 2020 to 4.9 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=6.4 · 2021=4.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325312 · Lathrop, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 172% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO Suwannee River Chemi…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~148 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Suwannee River Chemical (1.9 TCR gap)

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AB Plant - Lathrop in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AB Plant - Lathrop averages 5.7 TCR (172% of the Fertilizer manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

AB Plant - Lathrop TCR series: 2020=6.4 · 2021=4.9 · BLS 3.3

Where AB Plant - Lathrop falls in its industry

29 Fertilizer manufacturing establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 7 Fertilizer manufacturing employers in California.

AB Plant - Lathrop (148 employees, TCR 5.7) among 17 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 156 employees and a TCR of 1.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 18 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 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate AB Plant - Lathrop
AB Plant - Lathrop (148 employees, TCR 5.7) among 17 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 156 employees and a TCR of 1.5

AB Plant - Lathrop has fewer employees than the Fertilizer manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2021 4.9 4.2 7 0 0
2020 6.4 6.4 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325312 · CA · Lathrop

29 Fertilizer manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 77 employers in Lathrop, 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 Suwannee River Chemical 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR JR Simplot-Lathrop Plant 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Biola, California 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Swift Creek Chemical 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE OSF San Francisco Office 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE VAN NUYS DISTR HDQ 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE LADWP 18718 RAYEN 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE C A Rasmussen, Inc. 148 FTE
CITY-NEAR CALAH - LATHROP HUB 1,624 FTE
CITY-NEAR LATHROP HUB (CALAH) 970 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-CA-Lathrop-Harlan Rd-Manufacturing 518 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2802_5346 516 FTE
NAT-TCR Altria Compounds LLC 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Roche Bros. Supermarkets - Easton 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Holiday Inn Express 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sheraton Columbus 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Niagara Falls Plant 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE Strack and Van Til St. John 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE Petersburg Ofc/Whse 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE ND,FARGO - Ambulance - Ambulance Services 148 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: 2021, 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.