Potato farming, field and seed potato production · California

CSS Farms - Tasteful Selections

Arvin, CA · ~499 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

CSS Farms - Tasteful Selections runs at 142% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Potato farming, field and seed potato production workplace, earning a grade D.

CSS Farms - Tasteful Selections: 6.4 TCR = 142% of Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

CSS Farms - Tasteful Selections safety composite

CSS Farms - Tasteful Selections scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 37%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

−12.9

2018→2020

CSS Farms - Tasteful Selections injury rate improved

CSS Farms - Tasteful Selections's TCR fell 12.9 from 14.9 in 2018 to 2.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 14.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=14.9 · 2019=2.2 · 2020=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111211 · Arvin, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 142% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #18/24
  • PHOTO Black Gold Farms - MOA
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 45 inj
  • SIZE ~499 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Black Gold Farms - MOA (0.0 TCR gap)

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CSS Farms - Tasteful Selections in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows CSS Farms - Tasteful Selections averages 6.4 TCR (142% of the Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS benchmark).

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

CSS Farms - Tasteful Selections TCR series: 2018=14.9 · 2019=2.2 · 2020=2 · BLS 4.5

Where CSS Farms - Tasteful Selections falls in its industry

153 Potato farming, field and seed establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 24 Potato farming, field and seed employers in California.

CSS Farms - Tasteful Selections (499 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 CSS Farms - Tasteful Selections
CSS Farms - Tasteful Selections (499 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

CSS Farms - Tasteful Selections has more employees than the Potato farming, field and seed potato pr median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 2.0 0.8 16 0 0
2019 2.2 1.6 16 0 0
2018 14.9 14.9 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111211 · CA · Arvin

153 Potato farming, field and seed potato production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 41 employers in Arvin, 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 Black Gold Farms - MOA 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sixmile Land and Cattle LLC 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alliance, Nebraska 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gumz Muck Farms, LLC 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Public Works 499 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cherry Aerospace 499 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sylmar 499 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sacramento, CA 499 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sycamore Labor Inc. 5,865 FTE
CITY-NEAR Malaga Facility 1,391 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tasteful Selections, LLC 798 FTE
CITY-NEAR MALAGA CUT/SNACK 570 FTE
NAT-TCR JD Castings Inc 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sby 30 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1065 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1525 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE KIRKWOOD 499 FTE
NAT-SIZE DEN 499 FTE
NAT-SIZE Automation and Controls : Salem, VA, USA 499 FTE
NAT-SIZE Independence Pointe 499 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. 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.