Nursery stock (except plant bulbs, seeds) merchant wholesalers · California

Baldocchi and Sons

Colm, CA · ~47 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Baldocchi and Sons runs at 388% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Nursery stock (except plant bulbs, seeds) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Baldocchi and Sons: 8.5 TCR = 388% of Nursery stock (except plant bulbs, seeds) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Baldocchi and Sons safety composite

Baldocchi and Sons scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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).

F

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Baldocchi and Sons: 6.8 → 10.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 10.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.96× in 2018

Baldocchi and Sons's TCR rose 3.4 from 6.8 in 2017 to 10.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424930 · Colm, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.5 · 388% of ind

  • DART 8.2 DART
  • RANK #36/53
  • PHOTO Krueger Wholesale Fl…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Krueger Wholesale Florist (0.1 TCR gap)

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Baldocchi and Sons in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Baldocchi and Sons averages 8.5 TCR (388% of the Nursery stock (except plant bulbs, seeds) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Baldocchi and Sons TCR series: 2017=6.8 · 2018=10.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Baldocchi and Sons falls in its industry

185 Nursery stock (except plant bu establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #36 safest of 53 Nursery stock (except plant bu employers in California.

Baldocchi and Sons (47 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.7 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 05001,0001,500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Baldocchi and Sons
Baldocchi and Sons (47 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.7

Baldocchi and Sons has fewer employees than the Nursery stock (except plant bulbs, seeds median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.7. 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
2018 10.3 8.2 4 1 0
2017 6.8 4.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424930 · CA · Colm

185 Nursery stock (except plant bulbs, seeds) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 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 Krueger Wholesale Florist 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR FF-Arizona 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR DMWN - Clements 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bell Nursery - Monroe 8.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bowles Farming Company,Inc. 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ruiz Farm Labor 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fresh Valley Harvesting, LLC. 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Timothy & Viguie C.S.V. 47 FTE
NAT-TCR Atrium Post Acute Care of Chetek 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Chalet Skilled Nursing Facility 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Northwest Indiana ARC 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0027 3213 8.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Regional Boat Maintenance Center-RBMC 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manheim Keystone Pennsylvania 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE SC420 - Nashville 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE NFSL1 - Salt Lake City UT 47 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: 2018, 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.