Farm labor contractors · California

Castaneda & Sons, Inc.

Nipomo, CA · ~253 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Castaneda & Sons, Inc. runs at 144% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Farm labor contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Castaneda & Sons, Inc.: 6.5 TCR = 144% of Farm labor contractors BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Castaneda & Sons, Inc. safety composite

Castaneda & Sons, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

Castaneda & Sons, Inc.: 4.9 → 7.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 10.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.89× in 2024

Castaneda & Sons, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.8 from 4.9 in 2017 to 7.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 10.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 144% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #438/620
  • PHOTO AGSER CONTRACTING
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 60 inj
  • SIZE ~253 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AGSER CONTRACTING (0.0 TCR gap)

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Castaneda & Sons, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Castaneda & Sons, Inc. averages 6.5 TCR (144% of the Farm labor contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Castaneda & Sons, Inc. TCR series: 2017=4.9 · 2018=10.7 · 2019=6.1 · 2020=5.3 · 2022=6 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=7.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Castaneda & Sons, Inc. falls in its industry

836 Farm labor contractors establishments

Safer than 30% 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 #438 safest of 620 Farm labor contractors employers in California.

Castaneda & Sons, Inc. (253 employees, TCR 6.5) 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 Castaneda & Sons, Inc.
Castaneda & Sons, Inc. (253 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Castaneda & Sons, 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
2024 7.7 5.8 3 1 0
2023 4.9 4.9 3 0 0
2022 6.0 4.5 3 1 0
2020 5.3 5.3 10 0 0
2019 6.1 4.6 10 2 0
2018 10.7 6.0 22 1 0
2017 4.9 3.4 9 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115115 · CA · Nipomo

836 Farm labor contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 31 employers in Nipomo, 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 AGSER CONTRACTING 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Javier Ponce Nevarez 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Antonio R Soto FLC 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jorge Castro Farms 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sierra Farms, LLC 253 FTE
STATE-SIZE Frantz Nursery 253 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mid-Coast Transit Constructors - Mid-Coast LRT Extension 253 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Cheesecake Factory Bakery 253 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buenaventura Ranch, LLC 557 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sarc, Inc. 345 FTE
CITY-NEAR WE LOVE BERRIES LLC 289 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cal South Harvesting LLC 285 FTE
NAT-TCR Pallet Repair Services 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR B&D Fabricators 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR NA-US-NY-White Plains-Tarrytown 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR OR-Sherwood 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brothers Paving & Concrete 253 FTE
NAT-SIZE University of Connecticut School of Law 253 FTE
NAT-SIZE StateServ Medical LLC 253 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sun Toyota 253 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.