Agriculture production or harvesting crews · California

Cowles Berry Farm, Inc

Watsonville, CA · ~30 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cowles Berry Farm, Inc runs at 201% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Agriculture production or harvesting crews workplace, earning a grade F.

Cowles Berry Farm, Inc: 9.0 TCR = 201% of Agriculture production or harvesting crews BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cowles Berry Farm, Inc safety composite

Cowles Berry Farm, Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−8.1

2017→2022

Cowles Berry Farm, Inc injury rate improved

Cowles Berry Farm, Inc's TCR fell 8.1 from 8.1 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 19.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.1 · 2018=10.7 · 2019=5.9 · 2020=10.2 · 2021=19.2 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115115 · Watsonville, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 201% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #534/620
  • PHOTO Aguilera Labor Contr…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Aguilera Labor Contractor (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cowles Berry Farm, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cowles Berry Farm, Inc averages 9.0 TCR (201% of the Agriculture production or harvesting crews BLS benchmark).

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

Cowles Berry Farm, Inc TCR series: 2017=8.1 · 2018=10.7 · 2019=5.9 · 2020=10.2 · 2021=19.2 · 2022=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Cowles Berry Farm, Inc falls in its industry

836 Agriculture production or harv establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #534 safest of 620 Agriculture production or harv employers in California.

Cowles Berry Farm, Inc (30 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Cowles Berry Farm, Inc
Cowles Berry Farm, Inc (30 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Cowles Berry Farm, Inc has fewer employees than the Agriculture production or harvesting cre median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 19.2 12.8 5 1 0
2020 10.2 10.2 4 0 0
2019 5.9 5.9 2 0 0
2018 10.7 5.3 4 0 0
2017 8.1 2.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115115 · CA · Watsonville

836 Agriculture production or harvesting crews 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 Aguilera Labor Contractor 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gold Crown Nursery, LLC 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valley Pride, Inc. 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR AMR Contracting 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE BZNUR 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1780 San Juan Rd. 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charter Oaks 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenfields Turf, Inc. 30 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 Super Stop & Shop 0840 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Quality Concrete, Inc. 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kois Brothers Equipment Co 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR USM Store #911 (ALBERTSONS MARKET) 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Insul-Bead Corporation 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE CJ Logging Equipment 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nampa Packaging and Production 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hitemco Medical Applications (Himed) 30 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: 2022, 2021, 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.