Mexican foods, frozen, manufacturing · California

Culinary International LLC

Vernon, CA · ~90 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Culinary International LLC runs at 114% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Mexican foods, frozen, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Culinary International LLC: 3.8 TCR = 114% of Mexican foods, frozen, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Culinary International LLC safety composite

Culinary International LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Culinary International LLC: 2.8 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 4.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.63× in 2018

Culinary International LLC's TCR rose 2.0 from 2.8 in 2017 to 4.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311412 · Vernon, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 114% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #13/27
  • PHOTO Concord NH (Blakes)
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Concord NH (Blakes) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Culinary International LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Culinary International LLC averages 3.8 TCR (114% of the Mexican foods, frozen, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Culinary International LLC TCR series: 2017=2.8 · 2018=4.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Culinary International LLC falls in its industry

274 Mexican foods, frozen, manufac establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 27 Mexican foods, frozen, manufac employers in California.

Culinary International LLC (90 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 201 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Culinary International LLC
Culinary International LLC (90 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 201 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Culinary International LLC has fewer employees than the Mexican foods, frozen, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 4.8 2.4 2 0 0
2017 2.8 1.7 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311412 · CA · Vernon

274 Mexican foods, frozen, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 146 employers in Vernon, 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 Concord NH (Blakes) 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fresh Foods of Washington, LLC 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Home Run Inn Frozen Foods 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR SALINA PLANT 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE HM Clause - Davis West Research Station 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holland America Flowers, LLC 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hettinga - California 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE A & R Contracting 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods, Inc. - Vernon, CA 1,633 FTE
CITY-NEAR GRANDE VISTA (CAGVS) 1,333 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAGVS - GRANDE VISTA 1,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods - Vernon 984 FTE
NAT-TCR 0480 - Windows-Yakima 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR A-C Equipment Services 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Outerloop Building 4 (Kyvil) 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR MS - Elizabeth City, NC - 5ECN2 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Clover Technologies Group, LLC - Ithaca Union 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Isle at Watermere Southlake 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Williamsport Md (Whse) 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carry-On Trailer Corporation 90 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.