Fruit, machine harvesting · California

California Sun Grower Services - North

College City, CA · ~99 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

California Sun Grower Services - North runs at 173% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fruit, machine harvesting workplace, earning a grade D.

California Sun Grower Services - North: 7.8 TCR = 173% of Fruit, machine harvesting BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

California Sun Grower Services - North safety composite

California Sun Grower Services - North scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

California Sun Grower Services - North: 7.4 → 9.2 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 9.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.19× in 2020

California Sun Grower Services - North's TCR rose 1.8 from 7.4 in 2017 to 9.2 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115113 · College City, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.8 · 173% of ind

  • DART 9.2 DART
  • RANK #20/25
  • PHOTO Alejo-Diaz Equipment
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~99 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Alejo-Diaz Equipment (0.3 TCR gap)

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California Sun Grower Services - North in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows California Sun Grower Services - North averages 7.8 TCR (173% of the Fruit, machine harvesting BLS benchmark).

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

California Sun Grower Services - North TCR series: 2017=7.4 · 2019=6.7 · 2020=9.2 · BLS 4.5

Where California Sun Grower Services - North falls in its industry

34 Fruit, machine harvesting establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

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 25 Fruit, machine harvesting employers in California.

California Sun Grower Services - North (99 employees, TCR 7.8) among 20 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.1 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 21 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate California Sun Grower Services - North
California Sun Grower Services - North (99 employees, TCR 7.8) among 20 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.1

California Sun Grower Services - North has more employees than the Fruit, machine harvesting median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 9.2 9.2 11 0 0
2019 6.7 4.2 8 0 0
2017 7.4 4.7 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115113 · CA · College City

34 Fruit, machine harvesting employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 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 Alejo-Diaz Equipment 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Ag LLC - Eastern Business Unit 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Olam Spices Hanford 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Beecher/Ryan Harvesting-HQ 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE MARIA ELENA RUIZ MORALES 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE La Verne Nursery, Inc. 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Santa Paula Plant #3 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE BERUMEN'S FARM LABOR SERVICES, INC. 99 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Sun Grower Services 101 FTE
NAT-TCR Malach USA, LLP 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Blue Bug Solutions 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR transportation 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR The Willows 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Carlile Transportation Systems, LLC - Tacoma Terminal 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Houston Foam Plastics ELP 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE St James Behavioral Health Hospital 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hillside Center DE 99 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, 2017. 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.