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

Bud of California Celery

Salinas, CA · ~156 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bud of California Celery runs at 51% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Celery farming, field, bedding plant and seed production workplace, earning a grade B.

Bud of California Celery: 2.3 TCR = 51% of Celery farming, field, bedding plant and seed production BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bud of California Celery safety composite

Bud of California Celery scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% 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).

C

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% 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

2018→2024

Bud of California Celery injury rate improved

Bud of California Celery's TCR fell 0.5 from 1.3 in 2018 to 0.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=1.3 · 2019=4.0 · 2020=2.0 · 2021=3.2 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 51% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #19/175
  • PHOTO Broccoli
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~156 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Broccoli (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bud of California Celery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bud of California Celery averages 2.3 TCR (51% of the Celery farming, field, bedding plant and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

Bud of California Celery TCR series: 2018=1.3 · 2019=4 · 2020=2 · 2021=3.2 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=0.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Bud of California Celery falls in its industry

331 Celery farming, field, bedding establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

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 175 Celery farming, field, bedding employers in California.

Bud of California Celery (156 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Bud of California Celery
Bud of California Celery (156 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Bud of California Celery has more employees than the Celery farming, field, bedding plant and 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2024 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2023 2.5 0.8 3 0 0
2021 3.2 0.0 4 1 0
2020 2.0 0.7 3 0 0
2019 4.0 2.7 6 0 0
2018 1.3 0.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · CA · Salinas

331 Celery 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Broccoli 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bottomley Evergreens & Farms 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Siri and Son Farms, Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Curry Farms LLC 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fresh Foods, Inc. 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE Villa Park Strathmore 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE Packing Plant 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE Reyes Contracting Inc 156 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 Berks Ridge Company Enterprises, Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR RALHAM 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR CTI Hospitality, Inc 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Riggs Tree Service 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fisher Auto Parts - KOIWH 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE Albuquerque Nm 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brunner Manufacturing - 1025 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE L.E.C. Inc. 156 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.