Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant and seed production · California

Blanco Farms, LLC

Name: Blanco Farms, LLC Workplace Safety Data
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Salinas, CA · ~29 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 3.5
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Blanco Farms, LLC runs at 77% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant and seed production workplace, earning a grade B.

Blanco Farms, LLC: 3.5 TCR = 77% of Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant and seed production BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blanco Farms, LLC safety composite

Blanco Farms, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 3.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

−2.8

2017→2020

Blanco Farms, LLC injury rate improved

Blanco Farms, LLC's TCR fell 2.8 from 2.8 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.2 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.8 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=8.2 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111219 · Salinas, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.5 · 77% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #40/175
PHOTO Cactus Lane Farm
BOOK 4y book
INJ 5 inj
SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cactus Lane Farm (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Blanco Farms, LLC averages 3.5 TCR (77% of the Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant and seed production BLS benchmark).

Blanco Farms, LLC TCR series: 2017=2.8 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=8.2 · 2020=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Blanco Farms, LLC falls in its industry

331 Lettuce farming, field, beddin establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #40 safest of 175 Lettuce farming, field, beddin employers in California.

Blanco Farms, LLC (29 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Blanco Farms, LLC has fewer employees than the Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant an 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
2020	0.0	0.0	0
2019	8.2	5.5	3
2018	2.8	2.8	1
2017	2.8	0.0	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · CA · Salinas

331 Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant and seed production 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Cactus Lane Farm	WADDELL, AZ	3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Farm Shop	EL MACERO, CA	3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	McKay Farms	ST. PAUL, OR	3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	L&M Farms of North Florida, LLC	EAST PALATKA, FL	3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Sean V. Doherty Farms	ARBUCKLE	29 FTE
STATE-SIZE	CONSTRUCTION SUPPORT SHOP	ARVIN	29 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Cottonwood Farms	VISALIA	29 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Sun Pacific Farming Cooperative, Inc \| Grape Northern	BAKERSFIELD	29 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Foothill Packing	Salinas	8,854 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Foothill Packing-California	Salinas	3,255 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital	Salinas	2,197 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Salinas Valley Healthcare System	Salinas	2,133 FTE
NAT-TCR	ITC Arizona	Phoenix, AZ	3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Store 0025 GREENSBORO	Greensboro, NC	3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Company	Cincinnati, OH	3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Tft #595	East Haven, CT	3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Augustana Oakview Moose Lake	Moose Lake, MN	29 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Hhd23-Bfspr-Best Western Dulles	Sterling, VA	29 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Furniture Mart 53	Shakopee, MN	29 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Valdosta TMC - 805 W. Savannah Ave. Valdosta, GA	Atlanta, GA	29 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.