Vegetable and melon farming, potato dominant crop, field and seed production · California

Bowles Farming Company,Inc.

Los Banos,, CA · ~47 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bowles Farming Company,Inc. runs at 147% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Vegetable and melon farming, potato dominant crop, field and seed production workplace, earning a grade D.

Bowles Farming Company,Inc.: 6.6 TCR = 147% of Vegetable and melon farming, potato dominant crop, field and seed production BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bowles Farming Company,Inc. safety composite

Bowles Farming Company,Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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 6.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

−5.6

2019→2020

Bowles Farming Company,Inc. injury rate improved

Bowles Farming Company,Inc.'s TCR fell 5.6 from 9.4 in 2019 to 3.8 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 9.4 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=9.4 · 2020=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111211 · Los Banos,, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 147% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #19/24
  • PHOTO Green Thumb Farms
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Green Thumb Farms (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bowles Farming Company,Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bowles Farming Company,Inc. averages 6.6 TCR (147% of the Vegetable and melon farming, potato dominant crop, field and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

Bowles Farming Company,Inc. TCR series: 2019=9.4 · 2020=3.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Bowles Farming Company,Inc. falls in its industry

153 Vegetable and melon farming, p establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 24 Vegetable and melon farming, p employers in California.

Bowles Farming Company,Inc. (47 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Bowles Farming Company,Inc.
Bowles Farming Company,Inc. (47 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Bowles Farming Company,Inc. has fewer employees than the Vegetable and melon farming, potato domi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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
2020 3.8 3.8 3 0 0
2019 9.4 4.0 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111211 · CA · Los Banos,

153 Vegetable and melon farming, potato dominant crop, field and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 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 Green Thumb Farms 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR TN 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Black Gold Farms - MDR 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR FREDERICKSON FARMING LLC 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ruiz Farm Labor 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fresh Valley Harvesting, LLC. 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Timothy & Viguie C.S.V. 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yount Mill Vineyards 47 FTE
NAT-TCR Plant 43 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Charlotte NC Gypsum 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Southview Medical Center 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Milan Department of Public Utilities 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Petroleum Marketers Equipment Co., LLC 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stillwater Senior Living 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE PCS 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seneca Store 16 47 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. 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.