Raspberry farming · California

Berries

Watsonville, CA · ~172 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Berries runs at 203% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Raspberry farming workplace, earning a grade F.

Berries: 9.1 TCR = 203% of Raspberry farming BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Berries safety composite

Berries scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−0.5

2017→2024

Berries injury rate improved

Berries's TCR fell 0.5 from 10.4 in 2017 to 9.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 10.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=10.4 · 2018=6.2 · 2019=10.9 · 2020=8.1 · 2021=10.5 · 2022=9.4 · 2023=7.6 · 2024=9.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111334 · Watsonville, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 203% of ind

  • DART 6.6 DART
  • RANK #8/8
  • PHOTO Deblois Farm
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 141 inj
  • SIZE ~172 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Deblois Farm (0.5 TCR gap)

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Berries in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Berries averages 9.1 TCR (203% of the Raspberry farming BLS benchmark).

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

Berries TCR series: 2017=10.4 · 2018=6.2 · 2019=10.9 · 2020=8.1 · 2021=10.5 · 2022=9.4 · 2023=7.6 · 2024=9.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Berries falls in its industry

41 Raspberry farming establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 8 Raspberry farming employers in California.

Berries (172 employees, TCR 9.1) among 25 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 5.6 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 26 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Berries
Berries (172 employees, TCR 9.1) among 25 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Berries has more employees than the Raspberry farming median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 9.9 6.6 3 0 0
2023 7.6 5.1 9 0 0
2022 9.4 5.5 11 1 0
2021 10.5 8.8 17 1 0
2020 8.1 4.6 22 1 0
2019 10.9 8.9 33 0 0
2018 6.2 5.2 17 1 0
2017 10.4 7.6 29 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111334 · CA · Watsonville

41 Raspberry farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 111 employers in Watsonville, 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 Deblois Farm 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Enfield Farms Inc 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cornerstone Ag Enterprises 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR M & G Farms Inc 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Scarborough Farms 172 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mesa Harvesting Company 172 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sierra Pacific Industries Forestry 172 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Coast Const/Field Serv - Bld: 6592 - 01 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Office 2,439 FTE
CITY-NEAR Premiere Raspberries, LLC 680 FTE
CITY-NEAR Watsonville Community Hospital 632 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkhorn Berry Farms LLC 550 FTE
NAT-TCR Millwood, Inc. Smyrna 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Wells Global West, LLC 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Alberta Rider Elementary 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR ILC015 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Dcps Cluster 1 172 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Lutheran Home: Belle Plaine 172 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wausau 172 FTE
NAT-SIZE BERRYHEN 172 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.