Fertilizer manufacturing · California

ABW Plant - Lathrop

Lathrop, CA · ~142 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ABW Plant - Lathrop runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Fertilizer manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

ABW Plant - Lathrop: 1.9 TCR = 56% of Fertilizer manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ABW Plant - Lathrop safety composite

ABW Plant - Lathrop scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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%).

Rising injury rate

ABW Plant - Lathrop: 1.5 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.81× in 2023

ABW Plant - Lathrop's TCR rose 0.8 from 1.5 in 2022 to 2.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325312 · Lathrop, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 56% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #3/7
  • PHOTO Andersons Maumee Pla…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~142 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Andersons Maumee Plant Nutrient (0.0 TCR gap)

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ABW Plant - Lathrop in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ABW Plant - Lathrop averages 1.9 TCR (56% of the Fertilizer manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

ABW Plant - Lathrop TCR series: 2022=1.5 · 2023=2.3 · BLS 3.3

Where ABW Plant - Lathrop falls in its industry

29 Fertilizer manufacturing establishments

Safer than 41% 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 #3 safest of 7 Fertilizer manufacturing employers in California.

ABW Plant - Lathrop (142 employees, TCR 1.9) 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 01234 Average employees Total Case Rate ABW Plant - Lathrop
ABW Plant - Lathrop (142 employees, TCR 1.9) among 17 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 156 employees and a TCR of 1.5

ABW 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
2023 2.3 1.5 3 0 0
2022 1.5 0.7 2 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 Andersons Maumee Plant Nutrient 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR JR Simplot Company-Don Plant 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR AB Don Plant - Pocatello 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABW Don Plant - Pocatello 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Anatolio Munoz 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE Capay Farms 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE Firestorm Wildland Fire Suppression Inc. 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE SOLV, Inc 142 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 Delano ISD #879-Delano ISD #879-Elementary School 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR La Grange Nc 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR LNS - Norcross 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Dept. of Natural Resources (6) 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Eagle Family Foods Group 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE RCC Holdings, LLC (Tempe) 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE Western Heavy Haul, Inc 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nazareth Home Clifton 142 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.