Agriculture production or harvesting crews · California

Bengard Ranch, Inc.

Salinas, CA · ~41 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bengard Ranch, Inc. runs at 150% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Agriculture production or harvesting crews workplace, earning a grade D.

Bengard Ranch, Inc.: 6.7 TCR = 150% of Agriculture production or harvesting crews BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bengard Ranch, Inc. safety composite

Bengard Ranch, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Bengard Ranch, Inc.: 8.0 → 8.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 10.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.99× in 2023

Bengard Ranch, Inc.'s TCR rose 0.9 from 8.0 in 2017 to 8.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 10.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115115 · Salinas, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.7 · 150% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #455/620
  • PHOTO Foley Family Farms, …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Foley Family Farms, Ferrari-Carano (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bengard Ranch, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bengard Ranch, Inc. averages 6.7 TCR (150% of the Agriculture production or harvesting crews BLS benchmark).

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

Bengard Ranch, Inc. TCR series: 2017=8 · 2018=10.4 · 2019=4.5 · 2020=4.4 · 2021=4.3 · 2023=8.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Bengard Ranch, Inc. falls in its industry

836 Agriculture production or harv establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #455 safest of 620 Agriculture production or harv employers in California.

Bengard Ranch, Inc. (41 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Bengard Ranch, Inc.
Bengard Ranch, Inc. (41 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Bengard Ranch, Inc. has fewer employees than the Agriculture production or harvesting cre median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2023 8.9 6.7 4 0 0
2021 4.3 0.0 2 0 0
2020 4.4 4.4 2 0 0
2019 4.5 0.0 1 1 0
2018 10.4 5.2 2 0 0
2017 8.0 6.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115115 · CA · Salinas

836 Agriculture production or harvesting crews employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 337 employers in Salinas, 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 Foley Family Farms, Ferrari-Carano 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cal-South Harvesting, Inc. 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trump Vineyard Estates LLC 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rio Vista Fruit Farms 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE CAL-O ORGANIC FARMING ADMINISTRATION 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sun Pacific Farming | Citrus Farming | Lindsay 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sun Pacific Farming | Citrus Farming | IEW Enterprise 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE George Jackson Farms, Inc. 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foothill Packing 8,854 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foothill Packing-California 3,255 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital 2,197 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salinas Valley Healthcare System 2,133 FTE
NAT-TCR Sd2 - Sheriff 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR The Drake 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Price Chopper #10 - PC10 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR PEZ Manufacturing Corp. 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE PB - Pueblo 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eastside WTP Basins 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Duso Food Distributors, Inc 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scott Dugas Trucking & Excavating, Inc 41 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: 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.