Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers · California

Chico, CA

Chico, CA · ~16 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chico, CA runs at 568% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Chico, CA: 12.5 TCR = 568% of Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chico, CA safety composite

Chico, CA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.95 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

Chico, CA: 0.0 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 32.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.4× in 2023

Chico, CA's TCR rose 5.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 5.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 32.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Chico, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.5 · 568% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #134/136
  • PHOTO Greenview
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~16 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Greenview (0.1 TCR gap)

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Chico, CA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chico, CA averages 12.5 TCR (568% of the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Chico, CA TCR series: 2019=0 · 2022=32.5 · 2023=5 · BLS 2.2

Where Chico, CA falls in its industry

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchan establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #134 safest of 136 Agricultural chemicals merchan employers in California.

Chico, CA (16 employees, TCR 12.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 Chico, CA
Chico, CA (16 employees, TCR 12.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Chico, CA has fewer employees than the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesal median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2023 5.0 5.0 1 0 0
2022 32.5 32.5 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 - - 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · CA · Chico

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 189 employers in Chico, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Greenview 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Farmers/Henderson Location 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bomgaars Supply,Inc. - Burlington CO 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marion Office 12.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE CANAL RANCH FARMS, INC. 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE ESPINOZA FLC 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE RAM G LABOR CONTRACTING 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE VF - Santa Maria 16 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-11 4,124 FTE
CITY-NEAR Enloe Medical Center Employees 3,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 72 2,394 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 521 2,370 FTE
NAT-TCR Empire Building Materials Inc.-Missoula 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Baker Manufacturing Company LLC 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Henry Bosma Orchard 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 1681 Rpb88 12.5 TCR

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: 2023, 2022, 2019, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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