Alpaca production · California

Beneficial Insectary Inc.

Redding, CA · ~67 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Beneficial Insectary Inc. runs at 119% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Alpaca production workplace, earning a grade C.

Beneficial Insectary Inc.: 5.4 TCR = 119% of Alpaca production BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Beneficial Insectary Inc. safety composite

Beneficial Insectary Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Beneficial Insectary Inc.: 3.2 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.04× in 2021

Beneficial Insectary Inc.'s TCR rose 4.2 from 3.2 in 2018 to 7.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112990 · Redding, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.4 · 119% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK P44
  • PHOTO Sidney Division
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sidney Division (0.2 TCR gap)

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Beneficial Insectary Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Beneficial Insectary Inc. averages 5.4 TCR (119% of the Alpaca production BLS benchmark).

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

Beneficial Insectary Inc. TCR series: 2018=3.2 · 2021=7.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Beneficial Insectary Inc. falls in its industry

34 Alpaca production establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Beneficial Insectary Inc. (67 employees, TCR 5.4) among 27 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 50 employees and a TCR of 4.9 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 28 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Beneficial Insectary Inc.
Beneficial Insectary Inc. (67 employees, TCR 5.4) among 27 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 50 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Beneficial Insectary Inc. has more employees than the Alpaca production median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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
2021 7.5 5.6 8 0 0
2018 3.2 3.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112990 · CA · Redding

34 Alpaca production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 207 employers in Redding, 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 Sidney Division 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pioneer Feedyard LLC 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corp 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients: Maysville Enviroflight 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sonoma GVIC Ranches 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE MUGU RANCH PARTNERSHIP 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Travaille and Phippen, Inc. 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nurseries 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030151 1,894 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center Redding 1,789 FTE
CITY-NEAR 64030151-151001 MERCY MEDICAL CENTER REDDING 1,704 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2643-64030151-151001 1,662 FTE
NAT-TCR WA-Bremerton 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Aurora Cooperative - Aurora Agronomy 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR The Arc of San Antonio,Inc 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR C&D Scrap Metal Recyclers Co., Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ganado Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6500 W. 51st St. 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Diamond Plastics Corp - Macon 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Custom Metalcrafters, Inc. 67 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: 2021, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.