Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant and seed production · California

Coast King Packing, LLC Arizona

Salinas, CA · ~866 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Coast King Packing, LLC Arizona runs at 197% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant and seed production workplace, earning a grade D.

Coast King Packing, LLC Arizona: 8.9 TCR = 197% of Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant and seed production BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Coast King Packing, LLC Arizona safety composite

Coast King Packing, LLC Arizona scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 21% 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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%).

Coast King Packing, LLC Arizona held a steady TCR band

Coast King Packing, LLC Arizona's TCR held near 0.1 from 7.0 in 2017 to 7.1 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 12.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.0 · 2018=12.1 · 2019=9.2 · 2020=7.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111219 · Salinas, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.9 · 197% of ind

  • DART 6.8 DART
  • RANK #145/175
  • PHOTO L&M Farms of Georgia…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 87 inj
  • SIZE ~866 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: L&M Farms of Georgia, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Coast King Packing, LLC Arizona in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Coast King Packing, LLC Arizona averages 8.9 TCR (197% of the Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

Coast King Packing, LLC Arizona TCR series: 2017=7 · 2018=12.1 · 2019=9.2 · 2020=7.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Coast King Packing, LLC Arizona falls in its industry

331 Lettuce farming, field, beddin establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #145 safest of 175 Lettuce farming, field, beddin employers in California.

Coast King Packing, LLC Arizona (866 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 02004006008001,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Coast King Packing, LLC Arizona
Coast King Packing, LLC Arizona (866 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Coast King Packing, LLC Arizona has more employees than the Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant an median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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
2020 7.1 6.8 20 1 1
2019 9.2 7.6 23 0 0
2018 12.1 6.3 29 0 0
2017 7.0 6.6 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · CA · Salinas

331 Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 337 employers in Salinas, 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 L&M Farms of Georgia, LLC 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR FIVE POINTS T.I.C. 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farming2 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lakeside Organic Gardens 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE EVERARDO GONZALEZ 866 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneers Memorial Healthcare District 866 FTE
STATE-SIZE VAN NUYS HUB (CAVAN) 864 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - SMF6 864 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foothill Packing 8,854 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foothill Packing-California 3,255 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital 2,197 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salinas Valley Healthcare System 2,133 FTE
NAT-TCR Joe Wilde Company, LLC 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Gabriel Performance Products - HC 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Live Oak Homes Plant #2 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hadco Metal Trading Headquarters 8.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Palmetto Health Baptist Parkridge 866 FTE
NAT-SIZE VA Bessemer 866 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mansfield Sales/Admin. 866 FTE
NAT-SIZE CFI Ocoee FL16 Call Center 866 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.