Raspberry farming · California

Creekside Farms, Inc.

Watsonville, CA · ~191 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Creekside Farms, Inc. runs at 151% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Raspberry farming workplace, earning a grade D.

Creekside Farms, Inc.: 6.8 TCR = 151% of Raspberry farming BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Creekside Farms, Inc. safety composite

Creekside Farms, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.8

2017→2018

Creekside Farms, Inc. injury rate improved

Creekside Farms, Inc.'s TCR fell 0.8 from 7.2 in 2017 to 6.4 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.2 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.2 · 2018=6.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111334 · Watsonville, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.8 · 151% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #6/8
  • PHOTO ag land inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~191 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ag land inc (0.1 TCR gap)

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Creekside Farms, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Creekside Farms, Inc. averages 6.8 TCR (151% of the Raspberry farming BLS benchmark).

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

Creekside Farms, Inc. TCR series: 2017=7.2 · 2018=6.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Creekside Farms, Inc. falls in its industry

41 Raspberry farming establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 8 Raspberry farming employers in California.

Creekside Farms, Inc. (191 employees, TCR 6.8) among 26 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 5.6 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 27 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 Creekside Farms, Inc.
Creekside Farms, Inc. (191 employees, TCR 6.8) among 26 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Creekside Farms, Inc. has more employees than the Raspberry farming median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2018 6.4 4.5 13 4 0
2017 7.2 2.4 14 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111334 · CA · Watsonville

41 Raspberry farming 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 ag land inc 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pasco Farming 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farmland Management Services - Wisconsin 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sleepy Creek Farms 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wileman Bros. & Elliott, Inc. 191 FTE
STATE-SIZE WesPak, Inc. 191 FTE
STATE-SIZE Century Park Annex - Bld: 6792 - 01 191 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cannery Row Hotel Development Venture, re L.P. 191 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 Columbia Cottage-Palmyra 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR BRE 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR JRUSA-Portage 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Frederick (Mdfre) 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Republic National Distributing Company 17 191 FTE
NAT-SIZE PAM Specialty Hospital of Wilkes Barre 191 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mansfield Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation 191 FTE
NAT-SIZE Highland Oaks 191 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: 2018, 2017. 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.