Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers · California

Cal Fresco

Buena Park, CA · ~104 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cal Fresco runs at 628% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Cal Fresco: 13.8 TCR = 628% of Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cal Fresco safety composite

Cal Fresco scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Cal Fresco: 8.7 → 18.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 18.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.16× in 2019

Cal Fresco's TCR rose 10.2 from 8.7 in 2018 to 18.9 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424480 · Buena Park, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 13.8 · 628% of ind

  • DART 16.0 DART
  • RANK #62/71
  • PHOTO PSP Roanoke
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~104 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PSP Roanoke (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cal Fresco in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cal Fresco averages 13.8 TCR (628% of the Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Cal Fresco TCR series: 2018=8.7 · 2019=18.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Cal Fresco falls in its industry

369 Fresh fruits, vegetables and b establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #62 safest of 71 Fresh fruits, vegetables and b employers in California.

Cal Fresco (104 employees, TCR 13.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 Cal Fresco
Cal Fresco (104 employees, TCR 13.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Cal Fresco has more employees than the Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries mer median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 18.9 16.0 11 2 0
2018 8.7 8.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424480 · CA · Buena Park

369 Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 112 employers in Buena Park, 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 PSP Roanoke 13.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farm Fresh To You Vernon Warehouse 14.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SPOKANE PRODUCE, INC 14.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Full Circle Alaska Warehouse 14.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE farm management inc 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kendall Farms LP 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maple Dairy L.P 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Veg-Land, Inc. 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon Transportation Services : LAX5 1,220 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-041 910 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - LAX5 898 FTE
CITY-NEAR BUENA PARK CA 831 FTE
NAT-TCR 4795-PD-PWM-PORTLAND-PD 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Croix Forge, Inc. 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bayside Terrace 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 335055-Metuchen Po 13.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 258 - Lincoln 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE 139 - Athens 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4113-41131003-R02 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Comm HVAC NA and EMEA : SVC-Great Northern Plains District : SVC-Twin Cities MN-USA 104 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. 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.