Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production · Arizona

Cactus Lane Farm

Waddell, AZ · ~96 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cactus Lane Farm runs at 77% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production workplace, earning a grade B.

Cactus Lane Farm: 3.5 TCR = 77% of Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cactus Lane Farm safety composite

Cactus Lane Farm scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 49%), 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 3.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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

−0.8

2018→2023

Cactus Lane Farm injury rate improved

Cactus Lane Farm's TCR fell 0.8 from 3.7 in 2018 to 2.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=3.7 · 2019=3.5 · 2020=3.9 · 2023=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111219 · Waddell, AZ AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.5 · 77% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #6/18
  • PHOTO Blanco Farms, LLC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~96 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Blanco Farms, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cactus Lane Farm in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cactus Lane Farm averages 3.5 TCR (77% of the Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

Cactus Lane Farm TCR series: 2018=3.7 · 2019=3.5 · 2020=3.9 · 2023=2.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Cactus Lane Farm falls in its industry

331 Vegetable and melon farming, v establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 18 Vegetable and melon farming, v employers in Arizona.

Cactus Lane Farm (96 employees, TCR 3.5) 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 Cactus Lane Farm
Cactus Lane Farm (96 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Cactus Lane Farm has more employees than the Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable ( 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
2023 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2020 3.9 3.1 4 1 0
2019 3.5 3.5 5 0 0
2018 3.7 3.7 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · AZ · Waddell

331 Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 5 employers in Waddell, AZ · 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 Blanco Farms, LLC 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farm Shop 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR McKay Farms 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR L&M Farms of North Florida, LLC 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Broccoli 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mountain States Wholesale Nursery 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE NA-US-AZ-South Tucson-E Elvira 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Casa Grande - Public Works 96 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mark Anthony Brewing Company Glendale 306 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rauch North America - Glendale 286 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ball Beverage Pkg 159 Glendale 263 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mark Anthony Brewing - Glendale, AZ 149 FTE
NAT-TCR Berlin Hotel Operating 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Apex Logistics International Inc. SFO 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Golden State Steel 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Armstrong Garden Centers San Marcos 792 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 069-El Paso/9817 Dyer 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE The ALC Group 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eldorado Artesian Springs Inc 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aireko Construction LLC 96 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, 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.