Strawberry farming · California

Cassin Ranch

Watsonville, CA · ~266 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cassin Ranch runs at 107% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Strawberry farming workplace, earning a grade C.

Cassin Ranch: 4.8 TCR = 107% of Strawberry farming BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cassin Ranch safety composite

Cassin Ranch scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 44%), 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)
D 4.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

Cassin Ranch held a steady TCR band

Cassin Ranch's TCR held near 0.3 from 3.3 in 2017 to 3.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.3 · 2018=4.9 · 2019=3.8 · 2020=6.0 · 2021=8.5 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=3.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111333 · Watsonville, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.8 · 107% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #69/124
  • PHOTO Snellling Nursery
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 73 inj
  • SIZE ~266 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Snellling Nursery (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cassin Ranch in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cassin Ranch averages 4.8 TCR (107% of the Strawberry farming BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Cassin Ranch TCR series: 2017=3.3 · 2018=4.9 · 2019=3.8 · 2020=6 · 2021=8.5 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=3.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Cassin Ranch falls in its industry

132 Strawberry farming establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #69 safest of 124 Strawberry farming employers in California.

Cassin Ranch (266 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 01,0002,0003,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Cassin Ranch
Cassin Ranch (266 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Cassin Ranch has more employees than the Strawberry farming median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 3.6 2.6 7 0 0
2023 3.5 2.5 6 1 0
2022 4.8 3.8 10 0 0
2021 8.5 3.0 17 0 0
2020 6.0 3.5 11 1 0
2019 3.8 2.1 7 0 0
2018 4.9 3.3 9 0 0
2017 3.3 3.3 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111333 · CA · Watsonville

132 Strawberry farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 111 employers in Watsonville, 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 Snellling Nursery 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Duda Ranch 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sierra Farms, LLC 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Susanville 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mercury Air Cargo (JAL) 266 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2349 - Tulare 266 FTE
STATE-SIZE CFI-LAX 266 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1958 - Fontana North 266 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Office 2,439 FTE
CITY-NEAR Premiere Raspberries, LLC 680 FTE
CITY-NEAR Watsonville Community Hospital 632 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkhorn Berry Farms LLC 550 FTE
NAT-TCR GPC II - Washington 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Brimhall Elementary School 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Watertown Bus Maintenance Facility 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Printflex Graphics 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bridgeport Corretional Center 266 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cupertino Electric, Inc. - New Mexico Operations 266 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pye Rdc 266 FTE
NAT-SIZE CR Facility 266 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.