Hydroponic crop farming · California

Cresco Labs - Carpinteria

Carpinteria, CA · ~47 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cresco Labs - Carpinteria runs at 180% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hydroponic crop farming workplace, earning a grade D.

Cresco Labs - Carpinteria: 8.1 TCR = 180% of Hydroponic crop farming BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cresco Labs - Carpinteria safety composite

Cresco Labs - Carpinteria scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Cresco Labs - Carpinteria: 8.6 → 11.2 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 11.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.38× in 2022

Cresco Labs - Carpinteria's TCR rose 2.6 from 8.6 in 2019 to 11.2 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111419 · Carpinteria, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.1 · 180% of ind

  • DART 11.2 DART
  • RANK #14/19
  • PHOTO Green Leaf Extracts …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Green Leaf Extracts LLC dba gLeaf (0.1 TCR gap)

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Cresco Labs - Carpinteria in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cresco Labs - Carpinteria averages 8.1 TCR (180% of the Hydroponic crop farming BLS benchmark).

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

Cresco Labs - Carpinteria TCR series: 2019=8.6 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=11.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Cresco Labs - Carpinteria falls in its industry

251 Hydroponic crop farming establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 19 Hydroponic crop farming employers in California.

Cresco Labs - Carpinteria (47 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Cresco Labs - Carpinteria
Cresco Labs - Carpinteria (47 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Cresco Labs - Carpinteria has fewer employees than the Hydroponic crop farming median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 11.2 11.2 2 0 0
2021 4.5 4.5 2 0 0
2019 8.6 8.6 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111419 · CA · Carpinteria

251 Hydroponic crop farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 45 employers in Carpinteria, 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 Green Leaf Extracts LLC dba gLeaf 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR NuLeaf Sparks Cultivation LLC 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Holly Street 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR MassGrow Athol 8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bowles Farming Company,Inc. 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ruiz Farm Labor 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fresh Valley Harvesting, LLC. 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Timothy & Viguie C.S.V. 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 166 661 FTE
CITY-NEAR LinkedIn Carpinteria 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR Coastal Blooms Nursery, LLC 326 FTE
CITY-NEAR NuSil Technology, Carpinteria 322 FTE
NAT-TCR Southern Hills Nursing and Rehab Center 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Rhodes 370 - Farmington 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR HG214 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 2045-00010W 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cardinal Health RegScience 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Statewide Ford Lincoln Mercury 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central Wisconsin Management Inc. 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Summit Ridge 47 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, 2019. 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.