Warehousing, refrigerated · California

Central Cold Storage

Castroville, CA · ~23 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Central Cold Storage runs at 99% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Warehousing, refrigerated workplace, earning a grade C.

Central Cold Storage: 5.8 TCR = 99% of Warehousing, refrigerated BLS 5.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Central Cold Storage safety composite

Central Cold Storage scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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 5.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Central Cold Storage: 8.0 → 11.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.97× in 2024

Central Cold Storage's TCR rose 3.2 from 8.0 in 2017 to 11.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493120 · Castroville, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.8 · 99% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #80/125
  • PHOTO Lineage Logistics
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lineage Logistics (0.0 TCR gap)

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Central Cold Storage in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Central Cold Storage averages 5.8 TCR (99% of the Warehousing, refrigerated BLS benchmark).

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

Central Cold Storage TCR series: 2017=8 · 2018=4.7 · 2019=4.9 · 2020=0 · 2024=11.2 · BLS 5.8

Where Central Cold Storage falls in its industry

1,039 Warehousing, refrigerated establishments

Safer than 28% 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 #80 safest of 125 Warehousing, refrigerated employers in California.

Central Cold Storage (23 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Central Cold Storage
Central Cold Storage (23 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Central Cold Storage has fewer employees than the Warehousing, refrigerated 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 11.2 5.6 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 4.9 4.9 1 0 0
2018 4.7 0.0 1 0 0
2017 8.0 8.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493120 · CA · Castroville

1,039 Warehousing, refrigerated employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 30 employers in Castroville, 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 Lineage Logistics 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Distribution 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Joslin Freezer 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mountville, PA 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE James Diedrich Farms 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-Fanucchi Farms,LLC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE KAN2 - 04 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kyer Farms 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR D&J Packing LLC PO Box 130 Castroville Ca 95012 391 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ocean Mist Farms-Castroville 171 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ocean Mist Farms - Castroville 145 FTE
CITY-NEAR Del Llano Farms 95 FTE
NAT-TCR Residence Inn by Marriott Las Vegas Hughes Center 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Alpine Roofing LTD. 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Arow Global Corp 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR United Demolition 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE La Porte 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Duncan Aviation - Kalamazoo 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Portland Winair Co. 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE GT Products LLC 23 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, 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.