Tomato farming (except under cover), field, bedding plant and seed production · California

Costa Farms

Tracy, CA · ~24 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Costa Farms runs at 167% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Tomato farming (except under cover), field, bedding plant and seed production workplace, earning a grade D.

Costa Farms: 7.5 TCR = 167% of Tomato farming (except under cover), field, bedding plant and seed production BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Costa Farms safety composite

Costa Farms scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Costa Farms: 7.1 → 7.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 7.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.53× in 2021

Costa Farms's TCR rose 0.8 from 7.1 in 2020 to 7.9 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111219 · Tracy, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.5 · 167% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #124/175
  • PHOTO Timothy & Viguie C.S…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Timothy & Viguie C.S.V. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Costa Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Costa Farms averages 7.5 TCR (167% of the Tomato farming (except under cover), 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

Costa Farms TCR series: 2020=7.1 · 2021=7.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Costa Farms falls in its industry

331 Tomato farming (except under c establishments

Safer than 27% 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 #124 safest of 175 Tomato farming (except under c employers in California.

Costa Farms (24 employees, TCR 7.5) 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Costa Farms
Costa Farms (24 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Costa Farms has fewer employees than the Tomato farming (except under cover), fie 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
2021 7.9 4.0 1 1 0
2020 7.1 7.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · CA · Tracy

331 Tomato farming (except under cover), field, bedding plant and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 207 employers in Tracy, 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 Timothy & Viguie C.S.V. 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Costa Farms, Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kelena Farms, Inc. 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR COACHELLA FARMING 7.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Agro-Jal Farming Enterprises 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE MTD Farms 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marc Pura Ranch, LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Abe-El Produce Inc 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : OAK4 4,358 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - OAK4 3,512 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - SCK6 1,862 FTE
CITY-NEAR SWY-0025-0025-06560 FAC-06560-TRACY-CA 1,638 FTE
NAT-TCR Liverpool DC00055 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Garden City Hampton Inn 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR American Masonry Restoration 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Riverside Health and Rehab 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Extreme Power Services LLC 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE 155 Portland Gallery 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Saint-Gobain Crystals- Newbury 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Milesburg 24 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: 2021, 2020. 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.