Strawberry farming · California

Channel Islands Berry Farms, Inc.

Oxnard, CA · ~336 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Channel Islands Berry Farms, Inc. runs at 309% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Strawberry farming workplace, earning a grade F.

Channel Islands Berry Farms, Inc.: 13.9 TCR = 309% of Strawberry farming BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Channel Islands Berry Farms, Inc. safety composite

Channel Islands Berry Farms, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 6% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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

4/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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

−0.8

2017→2020

Channel Islands Berry Farms, Inc. injury rate improved

Channel Islands Berry Farms, Inc.'s TCR fell 0.8 from 16.8 in 2017 to 16.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 16.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=16.8 · 2018=6.9 · 2019=16.0 · 2020=16.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 13.9 · 309% of ind

  • DART 9.6 DART
  • RANK #119/124
  • PHOTO Ballico
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~336 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ballico (0.9 TCR gap)

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Channel Islands Berry Farms, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Channel Islands Berry Farms, Inc. averages 13.9 TCR (309% of the Strawberry farming BLS benchmark).

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

Channel Islands Berry Farms, Inc. TCR series: 2017=16.8 · 2018=6.9 · 2019=16 · 2020=16 · BLS 4.5

Where Channel Islands Berry Farms, Inc. falls in its industry

132 Strawberry farming establishments

Safer than 4% 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 #119 safest of 124 Strawberry farming employers in California.

Channel Islands Berry Farms, Inc. (336 employees, TCR 13.9) 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 Channel Islands Berry Farms, Inc.
Channel Islands Berry Farms, Inc. (336 employees, TCR 13.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Channel Islands Berry Farms, Inc. 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
2020 16.0 9.6 8 2 0
2019 16.0 3.5 5 4 0
2018 6.9 4.9 6 1 0
2017 16.8 3.0 15 2 1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111333 · CA · Oxnard

132 Strawberry farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 303 employers in Oxnard, 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 Ballico 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bassman 15.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mike Etchandy Farms, INC 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1780 San Juan Rd. 15.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE LAKESIDE CA (SAN DIEGO) 336 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rancho Cucamonga Operations 336 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern California Hospital, Hollywood 336 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Azusa - Police 336 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - OXR1 2,474 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Oxnard 1,753 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030383 1,437 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. John's Regional Medical Center 1,352 FTE
NAT-TCR Carolina Rehabilitation Center of Burke 13.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Residences of Brandon 13.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Herington Municipal Hospital 13.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Abington Manor 13.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0270 - Doors-Grinnell 336 FTE
NAT-SIZE Guhring, Inc. - Wisconsin 336 FTE
NAT-SIZE DSM Biomedical - Pennsylvania Drive Site 336 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wendover Art Group 336 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: 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.