Farm labor contractors · California

Byrd Harvest Inc

Guadalupe, CA · ~277 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Byrd Harvest Inc runs at 64% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Farm labor contractors workplace, earning a grade B.

Byrd Harvest Inc: 2.9 TCR = 64% of Farm labor contractors BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Byrd Harvest Inc safety composite

Byrd Harvest Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Byrd Harvest Inc: 2.1 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 4.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.71× in 2023

Byrd Harvest Inc's TCR rose 1.6 from 2.1 in 2017 to 3.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115115 · Guadalupe, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.9 · 64% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #208/620
  • PHOTO West Coast Packing, …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~277 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: West Coast Packing, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Byrd Harvest Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Byrd Harvest Inc averages 2.9 TCR (64% of the Farm labor contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Byrd Harvest Inc TCR series: 2017=2.1 · 2018=3.1 · 2020=1.6 · 2022=4 · 2023=3.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Byrd Harvest Inc falls in its industry

836 Farm labor contractors establishments

Safer than 68% 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 #208 safest of 620 Farm labor contractors employers in California.

Byrd Harvest Inc (277 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Byrd Harvest Inc
Byrd Harvest Inc (277 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Byrd Harvest Inc has more employees than the Farm labor contractors median and a lower 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
2023 3.7 2.0 8 1 0
2022 4.0 1.2 10 0 0
2020 1.6 1.6 3 1 0
2018 3.1 2.4 8 1 0
2017 2.1 1.3 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115115 · CA · Guadalupe

836 Farm labor contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 10 employers in Guadalupe, 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 West Coast Packing, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wasco Location 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Growers Transplanting, Inc. - Encinal 2 Farm 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Utopia Farms, LLC 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE GAR BENNETT LLC 277 FTE
STATE-SIZE DAVID GONZALEZ 277 FTE
STATE-SIZE C&C Harvesting, Inc. 277 FTE
STATE-SIZE Department of Public Works, Bureau of Contract Administration, Public Works Building 277 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wish Farms CA - Santa Maria 1,199 FTE
CITY-NEAR PanAmerican Seed Guadlupe 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ameri-Kleen - Guadalupe Branch 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Guadalupe 44 FTE
NAT-TCR POLAR BLOCK SALES INC. dba Renewal by Andersen 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 1358 Village Lane North 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Mayo Clinic Health System-Tomah 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Collinsville RHCC 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 6340-VIKING-001020_US_S0443 277 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plano Molding - Sandwich 277 FTE
NAT-SIZE Market Basket #59 277 FTE
NAT-SIZE Port Neal 277 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, 2020, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.