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

Andrew Smith Company

Salinas, CA · ~124 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Andrew Smith Company runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant and seed production workplace, earning a grade B.

Andrew Smith Company: 2.5 TCR = 55% of Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant and seed production BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Andrew Smith Company safety composite

Andrew Smith Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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

Andrew Smith Company: 0.6 → 714.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 714.9 TCR · DART/TCR 287.12× in 2021

Andrew Smith Company's TCR rose 714.3 from 0.6 in 2018 to 714.9 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 287.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111219 · Salinas, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 55% of ind

  • DART 714.9 DART
  • RANK #22/175
  • PHOTO Satur Farms LLC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~124 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Satur Farms LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Andrew Smith Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Andrew Smith Company averages 2.5 TCR (55% 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

Andrew Smith Company TCR series: 2018=0.6 · 2019=3.7 · 2020=3.2 · 2021=714.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Andrew Smith Company falls in its industry

331 Lettuce farming, field, beddin establishments

Safer than 81% 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 #22 safest of 175 Lettuce farming, field, beddin employers in California.

Andrew Smith Company (124 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Andrew Smith Company
Andrew Smith Company (124 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Andrew Smith Company 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
2021 714.9 714.9 4 0 0
2020 3.2 2.1 3 0 0
2019 3.7 3.7 4 0 0
2018 0.6 0.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · CA · Salinas

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 · 337 employers in Salinas, 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 Satur Farms LLC 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bud of California Cauliflower 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Tomato Growers , Ltd. - Midway TN PH 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR F A Maggiore & Sons, LLC 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rancho Guadalupe 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE Four Star Management LLC 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE California 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE CH HARVESTING 124 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foothill Packing 8,854 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foothill Packing-California 3,255 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital 2,197 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salinas Valley Healthcare System 2,133 FTE
NAT-TCR Haley Toyota Certified Center 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lifeworks, Services, Inc Mankato 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR TSP - Main 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR ICON Exterior Building Solutions, L.P. 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Summit Truck Bodies - Wathena 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southerland, Nashville Plant 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eastman Texas City 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE d'Escoto, Inc. 124 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, 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.