Plug (i.e., floriculture products) growing · California

Ball Tagawa Growers

Arroyo Grande, CA · ~53 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ball Tagawa Growers runs at 147% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Plug (i.e., floriculture products) growing workplace, earning a grade D.

Ball Tagawa Growers: 6.6 TCR = 147% of Plug (i.e., floriculture products) growing BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ball Tagawa Growers safety composite

Ball Tagawa Growers scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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

−10.1

2017→2024

Ball Tagawa Growers injury rate improved

Ball Tagawa Growers's TCR fell 10.1 from 11.5 in 2017 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 13.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=11.5 · 2018=3.4 · 2019=7.0 · 2020=5.2 · 2021=13.0 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111422 · Arroyo Grande, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 147% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #12/33
  • PHOTO Sidhu & Sons Nursery…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sidhu & Sons Nursery USA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ball Tagawa Growers in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ball Tagawa Growers averages 6.6 TCR (147% of the Plug (i.e., floriculture products) growing BLS benchmark).

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

Ball Tagawa Growers TCR series: 2017=11.5 · 2018=3.4 · 2019=7 · 2020=5.2 · 2021=13 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Ball Tagawa Growers falls in its industry

166 Plug (i.e., floriculture produ establishments

Safer than 34% 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 #12 safest of 33 Plug (i.e., floriculture produ employers in California.

Ball Tagawa Growers (53 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 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 01,0002,0003,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Ball Tagawa Growers
Ball Tagawa Growers (53 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Ball Tagawa Growers has fewer employees than the Plug (i.e., floriculture products) growi median and a higher 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
2024 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2023 4.9 4.9 3 0 0
2021 13.0 13.0 8 0 0
2020 5.2 5.2 3 0 0
2019 7.0 7.0 4 0 0
2018 3.4 1.7 2 0 0
2017 11.5 8.2 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111422 · CA · Arroyo Grande

166 Plug (i.e., floriculture products) growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 33 employers in Arroyo Grande, 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 Sidhu & Sons Nursery USA 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Skagit Horticulture - MV 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Neal Mast Greenhouses 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Robinson Nursery, Inc. 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE P-R Farms 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE LRC LABOR SERVICES INC 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Acemi Nursery 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Philip Verwey Dairy Inc 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030365 439 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marian Regional Medica Center - Arroyo Grande Campus 380 FTE
CITY-NEAR Papich Construction 223 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2556 214 FTE
NAT-TCR Marion 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Iamar - Marshalltown 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Tntul - Tullahoma 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Nypou - Poughkeepsie 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Divine Package LLC 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pfg Precision Optics 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Homeplace of Burlington 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thybar Corporation 53 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.