Cured meats (e.g., brined, dried, and salted) made from purchased carcasses · California

Busseto Foods

Fresno, CA · ~128 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Busseto Foods runs at 378% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cured meats (e.g., brined, dried, and salted) made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade F.

Busseto Foods: 12.5 TCR = 378% of Cured meats (e.g., brined, dried, and salted) made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Busseto Foods safety composite

Busseto Foods scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−3.6

2017→2019

Busseto Foods injury rate improved

Busseto Foods's TCR fell 3.6 from 15.5 in 2017 to 11.9 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 15.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=15.5 · 2018=10.0 · 2019=11.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Fresno, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 12.5 · 378% of ind

  • DART 10.1 DART
  • RANK #42/43
  • PHOTO Eagle Mountain Case …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 46 inj
  • SIZE ~128 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Eagle Mountain Case Ready (0.0 TCR gap)

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Busseto Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Busseto Foods averages 12.5 TCR (378% of the Cured meats (e.g., brined, dried, and salted) made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

Busseto Foods TCR series: 2017=15.5 · 2018=10 · 2019=11.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Busseto Foods falls in its industry

613 Cured meats (e.g., brined, dri establishments

Safer than 6% 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 #42 safest of 43 Cured meats (e.g., brined, dri employers in California.

Busseto Foods (128 employees, TCR 12.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Busseto Foods
Busseto Foods (128 employees, TCR 12.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Busseto Foods has fewer employees than the Cured meats (e.g., brined, dried, and sa 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
2019 11.9 10.1 20 0 0
2018 10.0 8.0 10 0 0
2017 15.5 10.7 16 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · CA · Fresno

613 Cured meats (e.g., brined, dried, and salted) made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 981 employers in Fresno, 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 Eagle Mountain Case Ready 12.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR DPI 12.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Klement's Sausage Company, Inc. - Lincoln Plant 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kings Command Foods, Llc 12.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dick Peixoto Company 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE BATTH FARMS 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main operations location 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE McIntyre Labor Services, LLC. 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR County of Fresno 7,553 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ag Force LLC 6,430 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Regional Medical Ctr 5,549 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Regional Medical Center 4,921 FTE
NAT-TCR H.P. Cummings Construction Company 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0031 3279 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ab-Hhh1-Spring Arbor Albemarle 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Bellin #1 12.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Veeder-Root (Simsbury) 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chase 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tmx0057 - Dallas Contact Center 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Repackaging 128 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: 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.