Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers · California

Calavo Growers

Santa Paula, CA · ~83 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Calavo Growers runs at 81% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Calavo Growers: 1.8 TCR = 81% of Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Calavo Growers safety composite

Calavo Growers scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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).

C

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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%).

Calavo Growers held a steady TCR band

Calavo Growers's TCR held near 0.3 from 2.8 in 2020 to 2.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 2.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=2.8 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424480 · Santa Paula, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 1.8 · 81% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #9/71
  • PHOTO The Garden Wholesale…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~83 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Garden Wholesale, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Calavo Growers in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Calavo Growers averages 1.8 TCR (81% of the Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Calavo Growers TCR series: 2020=2.8 · 2022=0 · 2023=2.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Calavo Growers falls in its industry

369 Fruits, fresh, merchant wholes establishments

Safer than 89% 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 #9 safest of 71 Fruits, fresh, merchant wholes employers in California.

Calavo Growers (83 employees, TCR 1.8) 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 Calavo Growers
Calavo Growers (83 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Calavo Growers has more employees than the Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers median and a lower 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
2023 2.5 2.5 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.8 1.4 0 2 1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424480 · CA · Santa Paula

369 Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 45 employers in Santa Paula, 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 The Garden Wholesale, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern Specialties, Inc 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Venida Packing Co. 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR California Giant Incorporated 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sunny Slope Trees 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stone Land Co. (Grangeville) 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stone Land Co. (Stratford Shop) 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stone Land Co. (Lemoore Shop) 83 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 203 2,546 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hot Line Construction Santa Paula 272 FTE
CITY-NEAR TLF 211 FTE
CITY-NEAR SantaPaulaHospital 173 FTE
NAT-TCR Marshall Nursing & Rehabilitation Community 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Tipp City Plant 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Market Basket #36 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR ZOLL Deerfield 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hanover Nursing Management LLC 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pinnacle Specialty Care 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE EverStaff - Solon 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Uds 0371 (Smyrna - F) 83 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. 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.