Strawberry farming · California

Ballico

Ballico, CA · ~262 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ballico runs at 288% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Strawberry farming workplace, earning a grade F.

Ballico: 13.0 TCR = 288% of Strawberry farming BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ballico safety composite

Ballico scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

−6.1

2018→2022

Ballico injury rate improved

Ballico's TCR fell 6.1 from 15.5 in 2018 to 9.3 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 22.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=15.5 · 2019=4.4 · 2020=22.2 · 2021=13.4 · 2022=9.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111333 · Ballico, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 13.0 · 288% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #118/124
  • PHOTO Mike Etchandy Farms,…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 108 inj
  • SIZE ~262 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mike Etchandy Farms, INC (0.7 TCR gap)

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Ballico in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ballico averages 13.0 TCR (288% of the Strawberry farming BLS benchmark).

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

Ballico TCR series: 2018=15.5 · 2019=4.4 · 2020=22.2 · 2021=13.4 · 2022=9.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Ballico falls in its industry

132 Strawberry farming establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #118 safest of 124 Strawberry farming employers in California.

Ballico (262 employees, TCR 13.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ballico
Ballico (262 employees, TCR 13.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Ballico has more employees than the Strawberry farming median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 9.3 5.0 17 0 0
2021 13.4 10.7 25 0 0
2020 22.2 17.9 36 0 0
2019 4.4 2.5 7 0 0
2018 15.5 8.7 23 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111333 · CA · Ballico

132 Strawberry farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 12 employers in Ballico, 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 Mike Etchandy Farms, INC 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Channel Islands Berry Farms, Inc. 13.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR LE - 03 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sorrento Berry Farms, LLC - Oxnard 11.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Los Angeles Police Department, Topanga Division 262 FTE
STATE-SIZE 708 YOUNG S MARKET-CHINO 262 FTE
STATE-SIZE Commodity Forwarders Inc. (LAX-5814) 262 FTE
STATE-SIZE Colonial Care Center 262 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hilltop Ranch 189 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hilltop Ranch Inc. - Turlock Rd. 144 FTE
CITY-NEAR farm management inc 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harris Woolf Almonds Ballico 77 FTE
NAT-TCR Three Links 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 246851-Sharon Po 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR The Inn at Christine Valley 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #1718 CHILLICOTHE, OH 13.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lunds & Byerlys, St. Louis Park 262 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bradken Inc 262 FTE
NAT-SIZE Raymond J. Spittle Building 262 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scgny - Gaffney 262 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, 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.