Nuts, kernels and seeds, roasting and processing · California

American Nuts-CA

Sylmar, CA · ~143 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.4
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

American Nuts-CA runs at 303% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Nuts, kernels and seeds, roasting and processing workplace, earning a grade F.

American Nuts-CA: 12.4 TCR = 303% of Nuts, kernels and seeds, roasting and processing BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

American Nuts-CA safety composite

American Nuts-CA scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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)
F 12.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−20.5

2020→2022

American Nuts-CA injury rate improved

American Nuts-CA's TCR fell 20.5 from 24.4 in 2020 to 3.9 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 24.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=24.4 · 2021=8.9 · 2022=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311911 · Sylmar, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 12.4 · 303% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #32/34
  • PHOTO Sungold - Lubbock
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 43 inj
  • SIZE ~143 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sungold - Lubbock (0.1 TCR gap)

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American Nuts-CA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows American Nuts-CA averages 12.4 TCR (303% of the Nuts, kernels and seeds, roasting and processing BLS benchmark).

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

American Nuts-CA TCR series: 2020=24.4 · 2021=8.9 · 2022=3.9 · BLS 4.1

Where American Nuts-CA falls in its industry

150 Nuts, kernels and seeds, roast establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 34 Nuts, kernels and seeds, roast employers in California.

American Nuts-CA (143 employees, TCR 12.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate American Nuts-CA
American Nuts-CA (143 employees, TCR 12.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.0

American Nuts-CA has more employees than the Nuts, kernels and seeds, roasting and pr median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2022 3.9 0.7 6 0 0
2021 8.9 3.0 10 2 0
2020 24.4 1.7 27 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311911 · CA · Sylmar

150 Nuts, kernels and seeds, roasting and processing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 112 employers in Sylmar, 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 Sungold - Lubbock 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pinto Barn 13.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Barry Callebaut 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sunbutter - Fargo 10.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE John Kautz Farms 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE Deseret Farms of California 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southland Sod Farms Operations, Inc. 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Woodland WDL1 143 FTE
CITY-NEAR Olive View-UCLA Medical Center 2,600 FTE
CITY-NEAR CRM Sylmar CA 1,331 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 405 1,319 FTE
CITY-NEAR CN Sylmar 1,270 FTE
NAT-TCR 4054-ABS-0005-0004-00839 12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 4054-ABS-0030-0030-04041 12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-SWY-0020-0023-02475 12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-SWY-0019-0019-01611 12.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Vanguard Truck Center 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Y Foods, Inc. New Milford 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Y Foods, Inc. North Branford 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE BRANDON 143 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: 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.