Fruit, machine harvesting · California

California Sun Grower Services/Equipment Services & Lucero Farms - Los Banos

Los Banos, CA · ~168 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

California Sun Grower Services/Equipment Services & Lucero Farms - Los Banos runs at 74% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Fruit, machine harvesting workplace, earning a grade B.

California Sun Grower Services/Equipment Services & Lucero Farms - Los Banos: 3.3 TCR = 74% of Fruit, machine harvesting BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

California Sun Grower Services/Equipment Services & Lucero Farms - Los Banos safety composite

California Sun Grower Services/Equipment Services & Lucero Farms - Los Banos scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 82% 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.84 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%).

Rising injury rate

California Sun Grower Services/Equipment Services & Lucero Farms - Los Banos: 3.0 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.55× in 2024

California Sun Grower Services/Equipment Services & Lucero Farms - Los Banos's TCR rose 0.7 from 3.0 in 2023 to 3.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115113 · Los Banos, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 3.3 · 74% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #3/25
  • PHOTO Sensient Natural Ing…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~168 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sensient Natural Ingredients, Field and Research (0.0 TCR gap)

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California Sun Grower Services/Equipment Services & Lucero Farms - Los Banos in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows California Sun Grower Services/Equipment Services & Lucero Farms - Los Banos averages 3.3 TCR (74% 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/Equipment Services & Lucero Farms - Los Banos TCR series: 2023=3 · 2024=3.7 · BLS 4.5

Where California Sun Grower Services/Equipment Services & Lucero Farms - Los Banos falls in its industry

34 Fruit, machine harvesting establishments

Safer than 82% 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 #3 safest of 25 Fruit, machine harvesting employers in California.

California Sun Grower Services/Equipment Services & Lucero Farms - Los Banos (168 employees, TCR 3.3) among 21 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.1 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 22 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/Equipment Services & Lucero Farms - Los Banos
California Sun Grower Services/Equipment Services & Lucero Farms - Los Banos (168 employees, TCR 3.3) among 21 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.1

California Sun Grower Services/Equipment Services & Lucero Farms - Los Banos has more employees than the Fruit, machine harvesting median and a lower 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
2024 3.7 1.8 8 0 0
2023 3.0 3.0 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115113 · CA · Los Banos

34 Fruit, machine harvesting employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 52 employers in Los Banos, 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 Sensient Natural Ingredients, Field and Research 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plover #205 Farms 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crown Harvesting Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lamb Chops Inc 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mininger Farms 168 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bud of California Lettuce 168 FTE
STATE-SIZE CCH 168 FTE
STATE-SIZE Orange County Plastering Company Inc. 168 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 316 779 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Liberty Packing Company 590 FTE
CITY-NEAR Liberty Packing Company 496 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Valley Hospitals (30738) 374 FTE
NAT-TCR Knit Textiles 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Windward Management Co Ltd 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Humboldt Live Haul 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR O'Hair Shutters East 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Minneapolis Marriott NW 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE FedEx Supply Chain PetSmart Columbus 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cantex Continuing Care Network LLC 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE Germantown Wi - 3173 168 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.