Farm labor contractors · California

California Harvesters, Inc

Bakersfield, CA · ~344 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

California Harvesters, Inc runs at 170% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Farm labor contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

California Harvesters, Inc: 7.6 TCR = 170% of Farm labor contractors BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

California Harvesters, Inc safety composite

California Harvesters, Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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).

D

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.0

2018→2020

California Harvesters, Inc injury rate improved

California Harvesters, Inc's TCR fell 3.0 from 6.8 in 2018 to 3.8 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 12.3 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=6.8 · 2019=12.3 · 2020=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115115 · Bakersfield, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.6 · 170% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #484/620
  • PHOTO Field
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 68 inj
  • SIZE ~344 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Field (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · California employers → · Look up another →

California Harvesters, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows California Harvesters, Inc averages 7.6 TCR (170% of the Farm labor contractors BLS benchmark).

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

California Harvesters, Inc TCR series: 2018=6.8 · 2019=12.3 · 2020=3.8 · BLS 4.5

Where California Harvesters, Inc falls in its industry

836 Farm labor contractors establishments

Safer than 22% 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 #484 safest of 620 Farm labor contractors employers in California.

California Harvesters, Inc (344 employees, TCR 7.6) 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 California Harvesters, Inc
California Harvesters, Inc (344 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

California Harvesters, Inc has more employees than the Farm labor contractors median and a higher 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
2020 3.8 0.4 8 1 0
2019 12.3 0.0 33 1 0
2018 6.8 6.5 27 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115115 · CA · Bakersfield

836 Farm labor contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 818 employers in Bakersfield, 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 Field 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Piepel Premium Fruit Company LLC 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Novavine Inc 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tatoes LLC 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bernards 344 FTE
STATE-SIZE MONTEBELLO CA PLANT 344 FTE
STATE-SIZE STAAR Surgical Monrovia 344 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sysco Central CA. 344 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA Bakersfield 4,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-04 4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - BFL1 4,113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Esparza Enterprises, Inc 3,267 FTE
NAT-TCR Brian Center Health and Rehabilitation/Gastonia 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Kansas City Retirement LLC dba Primrose of Kansas City 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 5052 - Cowhorn Creek Estates 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 301 East Main Street 7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hydro - St. Augustine 344 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oak Hill United School Corporation 344 FTE
NAT-SIZE GeoStabilization International 344 FTE
NAT-SIZE Smiths Tubular Systems-Laconia, Inc. 344 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.