Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant and seed production · California

Alco Harvesting LLC

Santa Maria, CA · ~1,678 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Alco Harvesting LLC runs at 119% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant and seed production workplace, earning a grade C.

Alco Harvesting LLC: 5.3 TCR = 119% of Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant and seed production BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Alco Harvesting LLC safety composite

Alco Harvesting LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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

Alco Harvesting LLC: 0.3 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 14.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.03× in 2023

Alco Harvesting LLC's TCR rose 2.7 from 0.3 in 2017 to 3.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 14.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111219 · Santa Maria, CA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 5.3 · 119% of ind

  • DART 0.2 DART
  • RANK #74/175
  • PHOTO Rava Business Park
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 272 inj
  • SIZE ~1,678 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rava Business Park (0.0 TCR gap)

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Alco Harvesting LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Alco Harvesting LLC averages 5.3 TCR (119% of the Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

Alco Harvesting LLC TCR series: 2017=0.3 · 2019=4.5 · 2020=14.8 · 2021=5.6 · 2022=3.9 · 2023=3 · BLS 4.5

Where Alco Harvesting LLC falls in its industry

331 Lettuce farming, field, beddin establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #74 safest of 175 Lettuce farming, field, beddin employers in California.

Alco Harvesting LLC (1,678 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Alco Harvesting LLC
Alco Harvesting LLC (1,678 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Alco Harvesting LLC has more employees than the Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant an median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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 3.0 0.2 37 0 0
2022 3.9 1.6 43 0 0
2021 5.6 3.7 48 1 0
2020 14.8 9.4 92 115 1
2019 4.5 0.3 39 0 0
2017 0.3 0.3 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · CA · Santa Maria

331 Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 280 employers in Santa Maria, 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 Rava Business Park 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farm 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR McClure Properties LTD 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR PEDRAZZI FARMS 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE ONTARIO CARRIER SUPPORT (CAOCS) 1,678 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 80 1,679 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 196 1,679 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 520 1,679 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rancho Nuevo Harvesting, Inc. 2,290 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030364 2,110 FTE
CITY-NEAR 64030364-364001 MARIAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 2,074 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marian Regional Medical Center 2,021 FTE
NAT-TCR Heavy Highway Construction 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Acme United Corp Rocky Mount, NC 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Super Stop & Shop 0852 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 0860 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aurora BayCare Medical Center 1,679 FTE
NAT-SIZE 072359-Denver Co P&Dc 1,679 FTE
NAT-SIZE Galveston Bay Refinery 1,677 FTE
NAT-SIZE FCI Milan 1,677 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.