Rice drying · California

Butte County Rice Growers Association

Richvale, CA · ~49 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Butte County Rice Growers Association runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Rice drying workplace, earning a grade C.

Butte County Rice Growers Association: 4.0 TCR = 88% of Rice drying BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Butte County Rice Growers Association safety composite

Butte County Rice Growers Association scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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

−2.1

2017→2024

Butte County Rice Growers Association injury rate improved

Butte County Rice Growers Association's TCR fell 2.1 from 4.0 in 2017 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.0 · 2018=6.0 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115114 · Richvale, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 88% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #86/236
  • PHOTO Diamond Central Pack…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Diamond Central Packing (0.0 TCR gap)

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Butte County Rice Growers Association in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Butte County Rice Growers Association averages 4.0 TCR (88% of the Rice drying BLS benchmark).

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

Butte County Rice Growers Association TCR series: 2017=4 · 2018=6 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Butte County Rice Growers Association falls in its industry

666 Rice drying establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #86 safest of 236 Rice drying employers in California.

Butte County Rice Growers Association (49 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Butte County Rice Growers Association
Butte County Rice Growers Association (49 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Butte County Rice Growers Association has fewer employees than the Rice drying median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 1.9 1.9 0 1 0
2018 6.0 6.0 3 0 0
2017 4.0 2.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · CA · Richvale

666 Rice drying 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 Diamond Central Packing 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2570-Thomasboro, IL (Monsanto Co.) 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR San Saba Pecan, LP 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bowman Fruit Sales LLC 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE LAJES FARMS INC 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sunview Shandon 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rawah-Napa County 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Farms 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lundberg Family Farms 379 FTE
NAT-TCR Franklin Ave 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Strick Trailers, LLC 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR TRANSPORTATION 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 4 B Farms, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 105NAP 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE 310GAH 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corvallis or 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rubber Plant 49 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, 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.