Dehydrating fruits and vegetables · California

Basic American Foods

Walnut Creek, CA · ~111 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Basic American Foods runs at 54% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Dehydrating fruits and vegetables workplace, earning a grade B.

Basic American Foods: 1.8 TCR = 54% of Dehydrating fruits and vegetables BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Basic American Foods safety composite

Basic American Foods scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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%).

Basic American Foods held a steady TCR band

Basic American Foods's TCR held near 0.0 from 1.8 in 2017 to 1.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.8 · 2018=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311423 · Walnut Creek, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 54% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #3/25
  • PHOTO Markham Plant
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~111 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Markham Plant (0.1 TCR gap)

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Basic American Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Basic American Foods averages 1.8 TCR (54% of the Dehydrating fruits and vegetables BLS benchmark).

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

Basic American Foods TCR series: 2017=1.8 · 2018=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Basic American Foods falls in its industry

123 Dehydrating fruits and vegetab establishments

Safer than 93% 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 #3 safest of 25 Dehydrating fruits and vegetab employers in California.

Basic American Foods (111 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Basic American Foods
Basic American Foods (111 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Basic American Foods has more employees than the Dehydrating fruits and vegetables 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
2018 1.8 0.9 1 1 0
2017 1.8 0.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311423 · CA · Walnut Creek

123 Dehydrating fruits and vegetables employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 119 employers in Walnut Creek, 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 Markham Plant 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR VDF Field Building 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sylvester GA 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Traina Dried Fruit, Inc. 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE CNTRL 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Peterson Ranch 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE KLEEN HARVEST 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Redding Cement 111 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 522 2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 523 2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2032-02121551 2,806 FTE
CITY-NEAR 02821551 WALNUT CREEK HOSPITAL 1,924 FTE
NAT-TCR Burleigh Campus 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Advanced Disposal - Pontiac Hauling 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR CHR- New Life Center 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Residence inn Carmel 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Grace Living Center-Bethany 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Joseph Center 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Preferred Compounding - Barberton 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manchester Health Care Center 111 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.