Farm labor contractors · California

Cypress Manufacturing - Zabala Farm

Salinas, CA · ~91 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cypress Manufacturing - Zabala Farm runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Farm labor contractors workplace, earning a grade C.

Cypress Manufacturing - Zabala Farm: 4.0 TCR = 90% of Farm labor contractors BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cypress Manufacturing - Zabala Farm safety composite

Cypress Manufacturing - Zabala Farm scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Cypress Manufacturing - Zabala Farm: 1.8 → 5.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 5.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.15× in 2020

Cypress Manufacturing - Zabala Farm's TCR rose 4.0 from 1.8 in 2017 to 5.8 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115115 · Salinas, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 90% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #294/620
  • PHOTO Herrema Dairy LLC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~91 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Herrema Dairy LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cypress Manufacturing - Zabala Farm in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cypress Manufacturing - Zabala Farm averages 4.0 TCR (90% of the Farm labor contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Cypress Manufacturing - Zabala Farm TCR series: 2017=1.8 · 2018=3.4 · 2019=5.1 · 2020=5.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Cypress Manufacturing - Zabala Farm falls in its industry

836 Farm labor contractors establishments

Safer than 54% 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 #294 safest of 620 Farm labor contractors employers in California.

Cypress Manufacturing - Zabala Farm (91 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 Cypress Manufacturing - Zabala Farm
Cypress Manufacturing - Zabala Farm (91 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Cypress Manufacturing - Zabala Farm has fewer employees than the Farm labor contractors median and a lower 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
2020 5.8 4.6 5 0 0
2019 5.1 1.7 3 0 0
2018 3.4 1.7 1 1 0
2017 1.8 1.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115115 · CA · Salinas

836 Farm labor contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 337 employers in Salinas, 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 Herrema Dairy LLC 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mesa Harvesting Company 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tamiami Citrus, LLC 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR JAVIER JACOBO 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE CDK Agriculture, Inc. 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Belridge 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Micro Paradox 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE CFS, LP. 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foothill Packing 8,854 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foothill Packing-California 3,255 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital 2,197 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salinas Valley Healthcare System 2,133 FTE
NAT-TCR Fondomonte Vicksburg Farm 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 475 Bloomfield, Ct 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR X-GEN Pharmaceuticals 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 239 Las Vegas, Nv 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bradenton Oaks 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE HFC - Chattanooga 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Waters of Princeton 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE LaBelle Winery 91 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, 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.