Berry (except strawberry) farming · California

Chapala Berry Farms

Watsonville, CA · ~98 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chapala Berry Farms runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Berry (except strawberry) farming workplace, earning a grade C.

Chapala Berry Farms: 5.3 TCR = 117% of Berry (except strawberry) farming BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chapala Berry Farms safety composite

Chapala Berry Farms scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−0.6

2017→2024

Chapala Berry Farms injury rate improved

Chapala Berry Farms's TCR fell 0.6 from 5.8 in 2017 to 5.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.8 · 2018=3.2 · 2019=7.1 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=4.8 · 2022=5.1 · 2023=6.2 · 2024=5.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111334 · Watsonville, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.3 · 117% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #3/8
  • PHOTO Breyman Farms Inc
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~98 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Breyman Farms Inc (0.1 TCR gap)

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Chapala Berry Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chapala Berry Farms averages 5.3 TCR (117% of the Berry (except strawberry) farming BLS benchmark).

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

Chapala Berry Farms TCR series: 2017=5.8 · 2018=3.2 · 2019=7.1 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=4.8 · 2022=5.1 · 2023=6.2 · 2024=5.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Chapala Berry Farms falls in its industry

41 Berry (except strawberry) farm establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 8 Berry (except strawberry) farm employers in California.

Chapala Berry Farms (98 employees, TCR 5.3) among 25 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 5.6 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 26 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 Chapala Berry Farms
Chapala Berry Farms (98 employees, TCR 5.3) among 25 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Chapala Berry Farms has more employees than the Berry (except strawberry) farming median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 5.2 4.4 4 3 0
2023 6.2 1.8 7 0 0
2022 5.1 0.7 5 2 0
2021 4.8 0.0 4 0 0
2020 4.8 3.6 4 0 0
2019 7.1 1.0 3 4 0
2018 3.2 2.2 2 1 0
2017 5.8 2.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111334 · CA · Watsonville

41 Berry (except 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 Breyman Farms Inc 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sarbanand Farms- WA 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alma IQF Facility 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gabriel Farms Inc 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Coastal GVIC Ranches 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ag-Wise Enterprises, Inc 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bains Orchards Inc. 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE GLOBAL MUSHROOM LLC 98 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 Dixie Plywood and Lumber Co. of San Antonio 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR EI002 - Bemidji Headquarters 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Texco Holding Company 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cherrywood Memory Care 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Junior's Smokehouse Processing Plant 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE TPC 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE IVI North, Inc. 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mediacom Cedar Rapids, IA. 98 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.