Strawberry farming · California

Butte Valley

Macdole, CA · ~43 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Butte Valley runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Strawberry farming workplace, earning a grade C.

Butte Valley: 4.4 TCR = 98% of Strawberry farming BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Butte Valley safety composite

Butte Valley scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Butte Valley: 5.0 → 8.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.48× in 2023

Butte Valley's TCR rose 3.8 from 5.0 in 2017 to 8.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111333 · Macdole, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.4 · 98% of ind

  • DART 6.6 DART
  • RANK #66/124
  • PHOTO DL FARM MANAGEMENT, …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DL FARM MANAGEMENT, INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Butte Valley in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Butte Valley averages 4.4 TCR (98% of the Strawberry farming BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Butte Valley TCR series: 2017=5 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=7.2 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=2.3 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=8.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Butte Valley falls in its industry

132 Strawberry farming establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #66 safest of 124 Strawberry farming employers in California.

Butte Valley (43 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 01,0002,0003,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Butte Valley
Butte Valley (43 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Butte Valley has fewer employees than the Strawberry farming median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2023 8.8 6.6 4 0 0
2022 2.6 0.0 1 0 0
2021 2.3 0.0 1 0 0
2020 2.5 2.5 0 1 0
2019 7.2 4.8 3 0 0
2018 2.6 0.0 1 0 0
2017 5.0 5.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111333 · CA · Macdole

132 Strawberry farming 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 DL FARM MANAGEMENT, INC. 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR WESTVIEW BERRY FARMS 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Susanville 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR BERRY VALLEY FARMS, INC. 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE 39 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Barton Overhead Door - Modesto 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Historical Properties Inc. 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Terra Outdoor Living warehouse 43 FTE
NAT-TCR Cottingham Retirement Community 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Camcorp Mfg 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Adaptive Textiles 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR McConway & Torley, LLC (Arcosa, Inc 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lakeland Senior Living 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pannier Glenshaw 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE BT Louisville 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plastic Design International, Inc. 43 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 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.