Farm labor contractors · California

Challenger Harvest, Inc.

Guadalupe, CA · ~21 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Challenger Harvest, Inc. runs at 334% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Farm labor contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Challenger Harvest, Inc.: 15.1 TCR = 334% of Farm labor contractors BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Challenger Harvest, Inc. safety composite

Challenger Harvest, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.7

2017→2024

Challenger Harvest, Inc. injury rate improved

Challenger Harvest, Inc.'s TCR fell 5.7 from 20.3 in 2017 to 14.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 20.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=20.3 · 2018=9.8 · 2023=15.6 · 2024=14.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115115 · Guadalupe, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.1 · 334% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #599/620
  • PHOTO Eliabeth Melendez
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Eliabeth Melendez (0.0 TCR gap)

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Challenger Harvest, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Challenger Harvest, Inc. averages 15.1 TCR (334% of the Farm labor contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Challenger Harvest, Inc. TCR series: 2017=20.3 · 2018=9.8 · 2023=15.6 · 2024=14.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Challenger Harvest, Inc. falls in its industry

836 Farm labor contractors establishments

Safer than 3% 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 #599 safest of 620 Farm labor contractors employers in California.

Challenger Harvest, Inc. (21 employees, TCR 15.1) 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 Challenger Harvest, Inc.
Challenger Harvest, Inc. (21 employees, TCR 15.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Challenger Harvest, Inc. has fewer 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 14.6 4.8 4 2 0
2023 15.6 13.0 6 0 0
2018 9.8 2.4 4 0 0
2017 20.3 9.0 7 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115115 · CA · Guadalupe

836 Farm labor contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 10 employers in Guadalupe, 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 Eliabeth Melendez 15.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR EAGLE AG SERVICES, LLC 15.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR AMARGOZA 14.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR CUSTOM FRESH HARVEST, INC. 14.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Poso Ridge,LLC 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fonseca & Fonseca, Inc. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE TELESIS ONION CO., INC. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mayflower Farms Inc 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wish Farms CA - Santa Maria 1,199 FTE
CITY-NEAR BYRD HARVEST INC 277 FTE
CITY-NEAR PanAmerican Seed Guadlupe 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ameri-Kleen - Guadalupe Branch 51 FTE
NAT-TCR Stericycle - Southampton,PA 15.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Girard Wood Products Orting 15.1 TCR
NAT-TCR The Springs at Lafayette 15.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Pine Tree Waste - Scarborough 15.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stoughton Area School District 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westside 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Owens & Minor Bangor 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE WD Chips, LLC 21 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, 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.