Noncitrus fruit farming · California

Alta Vista Farms, LP.

Watsonville, CA · ~467 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Alta Vista Farms, LP. runs at 125% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Noncitrus fruit farming workplace, earning a grade D.

Alta Vista Farms, LP.: 5.6 TCR = 125% of Noncitrus fruit farming BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Alta Vista Farms, LP. safety composite

Alta Vista Farms, LP. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−1.1

2018→2024

Alta Vista Farms, LP. injury rate improved

Alta Vista Farms, LP.'s TCR fell 1.1 from 5.5 in 2018 to 4.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 7.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=5.5 · 2019=4.5 · 2020=6.0 · 2021=7.0 · 2022=6.1 · 2023=6.0 · 2024=4.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111339 · Watsonville, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 125% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #18/37
  • PHOTO MS Mango Farm, LLC
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 147 inj
  • SIZE ~467 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MS Mango Farm, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Alta Vista Farms, LP. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Alta Vista Farms, LP. averages 5.6 TCR (125% of the Noncitrus fruit farming BLS benchmark).

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

Alta Vista Farms, LP. TCR series: 2018=5.5 · 2019=4.5 · 2020=6 · 2021=7 · 2022=6.1 · 2023=6 · 2024=4.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Alta Vista Farms, LP. falls in its industry

90 Noncitrus fruit farming establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 37 Noncitrus fruit farming employers in California.

Alta Vista Farms, LP. (467 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 6.2 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Alta Vista Farms, LP.
Alta Vista Farms, LP. (467 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Alta Vista Farms, LP. has more employees than the Noncitrus fruit farming median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. 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 4.4 2.0 16 8 0
2023 6.0 4.7 21 7 0
2022 6.1 2.5 22 8 0
2021 7.0 4.2 26 7 0
2020 6.0 4.0 26 5 0
2019 4.5 1.7 20 3 0
2018 5.5 2.8 16 10 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111339 · CA · Watsonville

90 Noncitrus fruit farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 111 employers in Watsonville, 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 MS Mango Farm, LLC 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bittner Singer Orchards 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dahle Orchards LLC 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Symms Fruit Ranch, Inc. 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE A.O. Reed & Co 467 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shutterfly Redwood City 467 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coway USA, Inc 467 FTE
STATE-SIZE Infinera - CA 467 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Office 2,439 FTE
CITY-NEAR Premiere Raspberries, LLC 680 FTE
CITY-NEAR Watsonville Community Hospital 632 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkhorn Berry Farms LLC 550 FTE
NAT-TCR UMSunzal973 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Rapid City Branch Office 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Hanafee Bros Sawmill Co. Inc 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bridges by Epoch at Andover 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Spangler Candy Co. 467 FTE
NAT-SIZE Menasha Packaging Company - Minooka 467 FTE
NAT-SIZE Providence Day School 467 FTE
NAT-SIZE Guthrie Mainstream Services 467 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.