Vegetables, cut or peeled, fresh, manufacturing · California

Classic Salads, LLC Watsonville

Royal Oaks, CA · ~129 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.2
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Classic Salads, LLC Watsonville runs at 347% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Vegetables, cut or peeled, fresh, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Classic Salads, LLC Watsonville: 14.2 TCR = 347% of Vegetables, cut or peeled, fresh, manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Classic Salads, LLC Watsonville safety composite

Classic Salads, LLC Watsonville scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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 14.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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%).

TCR Δ

−11.1

2021→2024

Classic Salads, LLC Watsonville injury rate improved

Classic Salads, LLC Watsonville's TCR fell 11.1 from 19.8 in 2021 to 8.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 19.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=19.8 · 2024=8.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311991 · Royal Oaks, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 14.2 · 347% of ind

  • DART 7.8 DART
  • RANK #56/69
  • PHOTO Mountain King Spud G…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~129 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mountain King Spud Growers (0.1 TCR gap)

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Classic Salads, LLC Watsonville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Classic Salads, LLC Watsonville averages 14.2 TCR (347% of the Vegetables, cut or peeled, fresh, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Classic Salads, LLC Watsonville TCR series: 2021=19.8 · 2024=8.7 · BLS 4.1

Where Classic Salads, LLC Watsonville falls in its industry

376 Vegetables, cut or peeled, fre establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #56 safest of 69 Vegetables, cut or peeled, fre employers in California.

Classic Salads, LLC Watsonville (129 employees, TCR 14.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Classic Salads, LLC Watsonville
Classic Salads, LLC Watsonville (129 employees, TCR 14.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Classic Salads, LLC Watsonville has fewer employees than the Vegetables, cut or peeled, fresh, manufa median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 8.7 7.8 10 0 0
2021 19.8 10.8 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311991 · CA · Royal Oaks

376 Vegetables, cut or peeled, fresh, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 12 employers in Royal Oaks, 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 Mountain King Spud Growers 14.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lunds & Byerlys, Mitchell Road 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR BRETT ANTHONY FOODS NB 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Garden Cut 13.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE MIGUEL OLIVARES & SONS 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE SUPERIOR AG. 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Manco Ag Services 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE LADWP 11791 TRUESDALE 129 FTE
CITY-NEAR Strawberry Harvest 711 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monterey Mushrooms, LLC. 667 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vasvision Berry Farms, LLC 530 FTE
CITY-NEAR Falcon Trading Company, Inc. 219 FTE
NAT-TCR Bell Cow/MSC 14.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Cimarron Trailers K LLC 14.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 303/Waddell 14.2 TCR
NAT-TCR COW001 14.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Electronic Contracting Company 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 1728 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northridge Health and Rehabilitation 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookhaven Dry Ice Plant 129 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, 2021. 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.