Alfalfa hay farming · California

Auza Farms

Brawley, CA · ~30 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Auza Farms runs at 100% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Alfalfa hay farming workplace, earning a grade C.

Auza Farms: 4.5 TCR = 100% of Alfalfa hay farming BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Auza Farms safety composite

Auza Farms scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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

Auza Farms: 0.0 → 0.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 13.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.08× in 2022

Auza Farms's TCR rose 0.4 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.4 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 13.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111940 · Brawley, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.5 · 100% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #8/18
  • PHOTO Rio Rancho 2000 LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rio Rancho 2000 LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Auza Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Auza Farms averages 4.5 TCR (100% of the Alfalfa hay farming BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Auza Farms TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=13.2 · 2022=0.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Auza Farms falls in its industry

31 Alfalfa hay farming establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 18 Alfalfa hay farming employers in California.

Auza Farms (30 employees, TCR 4.5) among 13 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.2 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 14 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 050100150 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Auza Farms
Auza Farms (30 employees, TCR 4.5) among 13 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Auza Farms has fewer employees than the Alfalfa hay farming median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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
2022 0.4 0.4 1 0 0
2018 13.2 3.3 1 3 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111940 · CA · Brawley

31 Alfalfa hay farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 47 employers in Brawley, 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 Rio Rancho 2000 LLC 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marbella Harvesting LLC 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR WESTMORELAND FARMING 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fondomonte Vicksburg Farm 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE ELCP 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE iFLY San Diego 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE RECOLOGY SONOMA MARIN - PETALUMA SOUTH 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1053 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 355 1,170 FTE
CITY-NEAR One World Beef Packers LLC 901 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pioneers Memorial Healthcare District 866 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sonia Corina, Inc. 835 FTE
NAT-TCR MS Companies Murfreesboro Tennessee 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Morgan Olson Ringgold Virginia 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR BTN-ODFL 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 529 - Chelmsford 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Project Network 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kearns Improvement District 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harter's Trash and Recycling 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE HG654 30 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, 2018, 2017. 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.