Farm labor contractors · California

Cal South Harvesting LLC

Nipomo, CA · ~285 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cal South Harvesting LLC runs at 11% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Farm labor contractors workplace, earning a grade A.

Cal South Harvesting LLC: 0.5 TCR = 11% of Farm labor contractors BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cal South Harvesting LLC safety composite

Cal South Harvesting LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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

Cal South Harvesting LLC: 0.0 → 1.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

Cal South Harvesting LLC's TCR rose 1.0 from 0.0 in 2023 to 1.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 11% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #20/620
  • PHOTO VISTA HERMOSA HARVES…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~285 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: VISTA HERMOSA HARVESTING, INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cal South Harvesting LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cal South Harvesting LLC averages 0.5 TCR (11% of the Farm labor contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Cal South Harvesting LLC TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=1 · BLS 4.5

Where Cal South Harvesting LLC falls in its industry

836 Farm labor contractors establishments

Safer than 97% 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 #20 safest of 620 Farm labor contractors employers in California.

Cal South Harvesting LLC (285 employees, TCR 0.5) 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 Cal South Harvesting LLC
Cal South Harvesting LLC (285 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Cal South Harvesting LLC 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
2024 1.0 1.0 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115115 · CA · Nipomo

836 Farm labor contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 31 employers in Nipomo, 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 VISTA HERMOSA HARVESTING, INC. 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR H2A Complete II, Inc. B&E Harvesting 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR El Don Farm Labor Contracting Inc. 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peter Rabbit Farms 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sabor Farms 285 FTE
STATE-SIZE CDS 285 FTE
STATE-SIZE HACIENDA FARM SERVICES INC 285 FTE
STATE-SIZE KMV FARM LABOR INC 285 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buenaventura Ranch, LLC 557 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sarc, Inc. 345 FTE
CITY-NEAR WE LOVE BERRIES LLC 289 FTE
CITY-NEAR Castaneda & Sons, Inc. 253 FTE
NAT-TCR Ravago Plainfield Distribution 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lincoln Winwater Works Co 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Nouryon Surface Chemistry LLC 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Tri-County Bulk Milk Haulers, Inc 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Howard S. Wright, a Balfour Beatty Co. 285 FTE
NAT-SIZE School District of Lodi 285 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fayette County Hospital 285 FTE
NAT-SIZE Youngquist Brothers, llc 285 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, 2023. 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.